Bitcoin may not seem as though it needs much help these days, having soared more than 400% over the past 12 months, but the industry surrounding digital currencies and blockchain—the cryptocurrency’s underlying technology—needs to address some major issues if it is going to be viable for a broad and mainstream consumer base. That’s according to Abigail Johnson, the chief executive officer of Fidelity Investments, one of the biggest champions of bitcoin and blockchain among traditional financial-services companies. “I like to think that huge new markets and products will be built on these platforms,” she said at Consensus, a blockchain-centric conference put on by digital currency site CoinDesk. “But before that can happen, we need to address the barriers there are to adoption—and there are several.”via