Electronic Trading and Blockchain: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Electronic Trading And Blockchain: Yesterday, Today And TomorrowAuthor(s): Richard L Sandor\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, Singapore\nImprint: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd\nISBN-13: 9789813233775, 978-9813233775\nSynopsis\nTrading floors in the 60s and 70s involved hundreds of people shouting bids and offers in multi-coloured jackets standing next to each other in different pits, gesticulating with their hands. The decibel levels were extremely high, so high that traders who traded every day had hearing problems later in life. In 1980, the first widely used electronic trading exchange was [url] September 1, 1969, the California Commodity Advisory Research Project (CCARP) was formed and housed at UC Berkeley. The project's first aim was to examine the feasibility of an electronic, for-profit exchange. At the time, there were only 12 exchanges worldwide, and none were for-profit or electronic. Read first-hand from Richard Sandor, the p.