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5 industries that demonstrate how blockchains go beyond finance

O'Reilly

Although blockchain technology is still in its early days, momentum has been building in the enterprise. While there has been much focus on blockchains in banking and payments, its impact has already extended far beyond finance. When a land title changes hands, it would be verified via the blockchain, and recorded again.

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Fine-grained, secure and efficient data provenance on blockchain systems

The Morning Paper

Fine-grained, secure and efficient data provenance on blockchain systems Ruan et al., We haven’t covered a blockchain paper on The Morning Paper for a while, and today’s choice won the best paper award at VLDB’19. ” In other words, smart contracts cannot access historical blockchain states in a tamper-evident manner. .

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Ensuring Performance, Efficiency, and Scalability of Digital Transformation

Alex Podelko

And we still have a lot of great sessions covering other hot topics: digital transformation, security, AI, machine learning, blockchain, etc. Marrying Artificial Intelligence and Automation to Drive Operational Efficiencies by Priyanka Arora, Asha Somayajula, Subarna Gaine, Mastercard.

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Blockchain and bitcoin for business

Tech News Gather

Blockchain and bitcoin offer a way of tracking and securing these relationships cost-effectively. Blockchain is a payment system supported by a distributed database or ledger that records all transactions across a peer-to-peer network. Transactions made on the blockchain depend on the cryptocurrency being exchanged.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 22nd, 2019

High Scalability

They'll learn a lot and love you even more.5 5 billion : weekly visits to Apple App store; $500m : new US exascale computer; $1.7 Have members of the executive leadership team, and Boeing’s board of directors, fly on 737 Max’s, every day, for a month.

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Web Development Trends 2019

KeyCDN

It can be used to decouple your frontend from your backend and improve server efficiency. Customer Service Chatbots Speaking of which, artificial intelligence has evolved to the point that bots can answer customers’ questions and solve problems more efficiently than humans.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 29th, 2018

High Scalability

Google's approach to pricing is, "do it as efficiently and quickly as possible, and we'll make sure that's the cheapest option". Blockchain is a solution in search of problems. I got to work on something so big a cloud provider learned about their scale bottlenecks. They were implementations of solutions to problems.

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