Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Blockchain and the distributed future

Check this out:
Blockchain and the distributed future

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/blockchain-distributed-future-azeem-azhar

You've heard of bitcoin. Underpinning the bitcoin is the blockchain, the distributed database that keeps track of every transaction involving bitcoin. Important as bitcoin might be, the signs are the blockchain is the truly revolutionary technology. 

The Internet's key design object was to survive nuclear attack. The need for resilience is what led to the distributed design pattern. But certain core features, like the IP address space and DNS lookups were never truly decentralised.

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