On the TechTO stage ×1
First seen on the TechTO stage in 2017. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Chris ↗
In their words
we now live in a world where a 10-year-old can create an international currency and your mobile device now has the same capabilities as a bank
value transfers have become speech. your password isn't access to your money, it is the money
we're halfway into this transition and we need to start asking ourselves who do we want to be in 10 years time — Netflix or Blockbuster Video, iTunes or HMV. The choice is a bold one but it is ours to make.
Around the web ×1
Quick answers
Who is Chris Horlacher?
A Toronto CPA who co-founded Equibit Group in 2015 and served as its chairman and CEO. He started as an auditor at a Big Four firm and was CFO of a startup brokerage before turning 30.
What was Equibit?
A securities registration and transfer system built on its own blockchain, plugged into Bitcoin. Horlacher described it on the FintechTO stage in 2017 as aiming to be 'the internet of securities' — equity, debt, primary and secondary markets, without depositories or transfer agents.
What did Chris Horlacher argue at FintechTO?
That digital scarcity is not an incremental improvement but a rewrite of how financial services are distributed, and that incumbents get roughly 20 years to choose whether they are Netflix or Blockbuster.