This exhibit takes visitors on a journey from ancient ledgers to bitcoin mining and staking—with digital storytelling, physical artifacts and interactive experiences. Topics include blockchain technology, digital assets and tokenization. The gallery also features dozens of artifacts tracing the advances in financial technology and communications over the past two centuries.
The Future of Finance
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Bitcoin miner, on loan from the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology (FCAT).
Guest Curator
Barron’s named Ric Edelman the nation’s #1 Independent Financial Advisor three times. He’s in two Halls of Fame and received three Lifetime Achievement Awards. He’s the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 14 books on personal finance, founding head of Rowan University’s School of Financial Planning and founding executive director of the Personal Finance Institute.
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What to Expect
The Past and the Future
Throughout history, technology has been used to improve the most fundamental of all financial tools: the ledger. This gallery features one of the Museum’s most treasured artifacts—Alexander Hamilton’s original ledger creating one of the nation’s first federal budgets—and traces the history of ledgers to the present day with an ASIC bitcoin miner.
Evolution of Trading Technology
Accuracy has always been important in the financial markets, and so has speed. The pursuit of both has resulted in near constant innovation of trading technology. This exhibit features examples of the many technologies that have shaped the financial markets, from early tickers to modern-day devices.
Crypto and Tokenization Interactives
Highlights of this gallery include interactive touchscreen stations, where visitors are invited to explore the worlds of crypto and tokenization through games and simulations.