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Fit and value: The business case for blockchain

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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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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 9th, 2018

High Scalability

This industrializes and 10x existing processes and creates new ones. This is the key problem with every musical blockchain initiative I've ever seen. Proposals whose "blockchain" would need to add 1GB/hour, that sort of thing. @vijaypande 's "When Software Eats Bio."

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5 industries that demonstrate how blockchains go beyond finance

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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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Blockchain – Implications on Global Business Ecosystem

Official Blog - World Web Technology

Blockchain managed to gain a lot of attention of late. With an overwhelming response from all over the world, Blockchain implication becomes a perfect solution for most complex issues as well. Blockchain and Trade – has also dramatically redefined the business processes within and between enterprises.

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Blockchain – Implications on Global Business Ecosystem

Official Blog - World Web Technology

Blockchain managed to gain a lot of attention of late. With an overwhelming response from all over the world, Blockchain implication becomes a perfect solution for most complex issues as well. Blockchain and Trade – has also dramatically redefined the business processes within and between enterprises.

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Blockchain – Implications on Global Business Ecosystem

Official Blog - World Web Technology

Blockchain managed to gain a lot of attention of late. With an overwhelming response from all over the world, Blockchain implication becomes a perfect solution for most complex issues as well. Blockchain and Trade – has also dramatically redefined the business processes within and between enterprises.

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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.