A FERTILE LAND FOR OPPORTUNITY

As we witness these changes happening around us, as the government, we could have taken two roads: either to sit back and let the big waves of change settle down with the hope that it does as little damage as possible to us – or else prepare for it by building necessary breakwaters, canals and making good use of the force of nature that this new technology is proving to be. I believe that nothing happens by coincidence, certain factors fall into place at the right time, true. Yet when opportunities come by you need the right people and the surgical coolness to take quick, sometimes risky, decisions not to let ships sail. That is what happened with blockchain in Malta – the seed landed on very fertile soil and as a government we saw the opportunity to start watering the seed carefully, to make sure it grows in an organic way, yet still building the blocks around it to make sure that when the time is right we start bearing fruit.

The sky is the limit as long as the rules of the game are observed, that is why we have gained our reputation as the Blockchain Island. Our vision is to see this sector grow, both in volume but more so in finding new ways on how technology can improve the lives of people. Are we done yet? Of course not – and what’s next? That is the question we ask ourselves each and every day in our offices. Like every company we can only find opportunities if we are out there on the lookout.

We are a fertile land for opportunities and discussion. This country has solid foundations and is ready to make the conditions right for the next leap in robotics, A.I., IoT – to go wherever our imagination can take us. I have only one word of caution, we like to do things the right way, within clear and sensible parameters – not rushing our way through but doing them at the right pace. Our philosophy is to be honest brokers where we all know where we stand with each other.

Let us think big and together we can make the next leap.