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Fit and value: The business case for blockchain

O'Reilly

Blockchains have a uniquely tumultuous early history for an enterprise technology—from a mysterious origin story, to a sensational first application in bitcoin, to a swift fall from a particularly frothy hype cycle. Blockchain technology provides the encrypted distributed ledger that made the first cryptocurrency, bitcoin, possible.

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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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AI’s Opaque Box Is Actually a Supply Chain

O'Reilly

Some of the steps in AI’s type of supply chain can be tricky to follow, with special gotchas like technology company trade secrets, closed code, and program synthesis—which is the process of AI writing its own code to improve itself. An enterprise blockchain network is sometimes used to bring transparency to the supply chain.

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Strategies for Digital Yuan Success: Byte Banking Brilliance

Tech News Gather

Comparatively, the Digital Yuan stands out due to its centralized control by the Chinese government, contrasting with the decentralized nature of many cryptocurrencies. Its adoption is facilitated by the backing of the government, its legal status as a form of legal tender, and its integration into existing financial systems.

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Washed Up

Alex Russell

The politics of blockchain proponents have led them to explicitly reject the foundational protocols and technical underpinnings of the web. "web3" As a technical matter, browsers are capable of implementing content-addressed networking, thanks to Web Packages , without doing violence to the web's gaurantees of safety in the process.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For December 7th, 2018

High Scalability

photons ever emitted in the universe; 0.00% : blockchain success rate; Quotable Quotes: @math_rachel : About half of > 200 people seeking visas for @black_in_ai #NeurIPS2018 were denied. We have a fabrication plant in Chengdu, it's public knowledge that this fab is helping to manufacture products built on the latest process technology.

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How to earn 10x profits by investing in metaverse?

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Virtual currency networks have independent blockchains, which store all transaction data and records related to each transaction made on the platform. Second, no other external mitigating force: Because these systems are decentralized and unregulated, they don’t require any middlemen to process transactions or keep records.