Join us March 4 for a conversation on blockchain technology and Texas’ future economy

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The blockchain has created new currencies, promising to change the internet. It has minted new industries and millionaires in Texas, and spurred all kinds of state and private investment. But there are worries about its sustainability and impact on the power grid.

What does the industry need from Texas? And how should the government respond?

Texas Tribune Editor-in-Chief Matthew Watkins moderates a March 4 conversation with Lee Bratcher, president of Texas Blockchain Council; Cesare Fracassi, associate professor of finance and director of the Blockchain Initiative at Texas McCombs School of Business at University of Texas at Austin; and Carol Haines, head of power and policy at Core Scientific.

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This event will be held at the Tribune’s Studio 919 in Austin and is the second in the "Tech and the Texas Lege" series, which explores how emerging technologies are challenging state leaders to prepare Texas for the future economy.

Doors open at 8:30 a.m. and the hour-long conversation begins at 9 a.m.

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