Top banker Anthony Jenkins now on the board of Blockchain.info
Antony Jenkins, Group Chief Executive of Barclays Bank, at the One Young World Conference in Dublin, Ireland. Image by Stefan Schäfer, license: Creative Commons
One of the most important bankers in the world is now doing something with Bitcoin. The ex-director of the Großbank Barclays wants to with Blockchain.Info and another startup reinvent the infrastructure for money.
Things happen. The ARD finds that Bitcoin is back, even though it was considered dead and asks “after the huge crash three years ago”, almost outraged how that is possible. The ARD somehow finds the answer in Donald Trump, Chinese capital controls and the assumption that “Bitcoin transactions are significantly safer than regular payments.”
The most recent contribution by ARD about Bitcoin is remarkable. No drugs, no darknet, just a subordinate clause volatility. Otherwise, the knowledge seems to be used in the editorial team that is overwhelmed by almost everyone in life: this impossible money, this crazy Bitcoin – that still exists! And it is even stronger than ever before!
Even with the banks, it seems to be slowly dawding. Over the past two years, the industry had only “Blockchain Blockchain” in mind and has increased the idea that Bitcoin was nonsense, but the blockchain changes everything. After the financial industry feverishly searched for some time after the “Blockchain” killer app, the realization matures that it already exists: a decentralized money. Bitcoin.
Anthony Jenkins also seems to have come to this realization. The Londoner was “Group Chief Executive” by Barclays, one of the world’s largest banks until mid -2016. Since his farewell to Barclays, Jenkins is devoting himself to the revolution of banking through Fintech, for example by founding the startup 10x banking. The startup works on a cloud-based core system for banks’ transaction processes in order to enable a more colorful and more diverse ecology of the banks. Create a standard and give the actors more freedom of action by liberating them from having to worry about their own system.
Now Jenkins has also put his foot in the Bitcoin world. The 55-year-old banker is now on the Supervisory Board of Blockchain, that as a blockchain.Info known platform for Bitcoin statistics and a Bitcoin wallet. Blockchain MyWallet is the most popular online wallet in the world with more than 8 million wallets and has already processed more than 60 million transactions.
Jenkins explains the reasons for this career step: “Blockchain technology has the potential to reinvent the way we use money and contribute to a financial system that offers high quality for low costs and is also safe, fair and transparent.“That Jenkings are both 10x banking and blockchain.Info falls on projects that start at the base of technology and provide basic infrastructure services for using money, suggests that he knows what he is doing-and that both Fiat money and Bitcoin is part of his plans.
For blockchain.Info is the appointment of Jenkins to the Supervisory Board a kind of further knighthood. The startup started with the fact that Nicolas Cary, Peter Smith and Ben Reeves founded a platform with statistics for Bitcoin-Blockchain. Hence the name, blockchain.info. Soon afterwards the online wallet MyWallet, which is convenient, relatively safe and easy to use, followed, even if the privacy partly suffers from the reuse of addresses. Recently, Blockchain has.Info Thunder presented a prototype for its variant of the Lightning network. After the startups received a capital injection of $ 30 million, it has recruited personnel; It now employs more than 30 people.
