
The next phase of growth in the cryptocurrency space will be driven by protocols less decentralized than Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), according to Alkesh Shah, the head of the cryptocurrency and digital asset strategy at BofA Securities.
What Happened: Speaking at a webinar hosted by Columbia Business School, Shah said the digital asset ecosystem was not going in the direction Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto envisioned it would — but that was not necessarily a bad thing.