Blockchain in Healthcare: Timeline
Medical Device Network July 9, 2020
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) will play an important role in enabling new business networks and it will find its way into the core of many mainstream processes, but DLT will not bring about the dramatic transformation that proponents claim. While it will certainly play a role in supporting transformation, much of the hard work that will be required in order to digitize old and inefficient processes will have little or nothing to do with blockchain technology itself.
Listed below are the key developments in the history of blockchain, as identified by GlobalData.
2008 – Satoshi Nakamoto publishes original Bitcoin White Paper
2009 – First units of the bitcoin cryptocurrency released
2010 – Mt. Gox, a bitcoin exchange, launched...