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Blockchain Success Stories
but for most private blockchain projects, it’s not the technology that matters — it’s getting adoption, getting people comfortable with change, and working out all the legal and financial difficulties that come up.
Neel Mehta • Blockchain Bubble or Revolution: The Future of Bitcoin, Blockchains, and Cryptocurrencies
While tokenized incentives make the untrusted networks safe, they also make them very slow. Public and permissionless networks can only handle a few transactions per second, which makes them unfeasible for large-scale applications with high transaction volumes. However, various technological solutions are currently being proposed and implemented to... See more
Shermin Voshmgir • Token Economy
of 2016, the best known of these was probably Ethereum, which described itself as “a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference.”
Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson • Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
Two significant innovations underpin Bitcoin: a technological one, namely the public and distributed ledger technology called “blockchain,” which securely maintains an immutable record of all user transactions, and an organizational innovation, namely, the existence of an open network of users with special roles and rights called “miners”, who lend... See more