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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. Health care. Health care. But development has been underway for years already.

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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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Database Resolutions for 2018

VoltDB

And It isn’t restricted to financial institutions; fraudsters all over the world are figuring out how to make money illegally across a wide range of industries like telco, adtech, transportation, utilities, government, healthcare, and retail. These systems are fundamentally non-transactional (they lack ACID compliance).

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Database Resolutions for 2018

VoltDB

And It isn’t restricted to financial institutions; fraudsters all over the world are figuring out how to make money illegally across a wide range of industries like telco, adtech, transportation, utilities, government, healthcare, and retail. These systems are fundamentally non-transactional (they lack ACID compliance).

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 3rd, 2018

High Scalability

Paco Nathan : Frankly, I’d feel a lot more comfortable sending my kids off to school in a self-driving bus if the machine learning models hadn’t been trained solely by Google’s proprietary data. “Many companies will halt their blockchain tests this year. margin over the same period.

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Web Development Trends 2019

KeyCDN

Blockchain Technology Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin rely on blockchains, but web developers are just realizing the full potential of this technology. IBM, Microsoft, and Amazon are all exploring new ways to use blockchains in 2019. Users and developers both prefer discreet notifications on their toolbar over cluttered inboxes.

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Innovation Exhaustion

The Agile Manager

There are plenty of examples - music publishing, mass-market retailing, local transportation - where new entrants have left a wake of creative destruction in their path. Blockchain could eliminate redundancies across companies, reduce fees for simple transfers, and usher in all kinds of innovation.