Mass Device May 23, 2018
Blockchain is the big buzzword these days, bruited as a disruptive force for industries covering the spectrum. But there seems to be little understanding of what exactly “blockchain” means, let alone how it could affect so many different markets so profoundly.
Simply put, a blockchain is a decentralized database with tight rules about how data is entered, maintained and accessed. Instead of being stored at a single location, the data in a blockchain are stored in a series of discrete nodes. Think of it as a connected series of ledgers, each with identical data. Because each transaction must be exactly the same across all the ledgers, blockchains are “very difficult to work with, expensive to maintain, hard to upgrade and...
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