Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond

Chapter 17

Preparing Current Portfolios for Blockchain Disruption

When Toffler stated in the 1970s that exponential change would cause millions of people to have an “abrupt collision with the future,” it was issued as a warning. When considering investing in cryptoassets, innovative investors need to not only consider an individual investment (like bitcoin or ether) but also how this new asset class and the overall concept of blockchain technology could impact other assets within their portfolio. This chapter focuses on the importance of actively evaluating and potentially protecting one’s portfolio in the face of exponential change.

When pondering the changes cryptoassets are bringing to the way we invest today, we must also recognize that ...