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Blockchain: What’s It All About And Who Is Set To Benefit?

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Rupert Hargreaves
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Blockchain is possibly the most talked about financial innovation of this decade and over the past 12 months, there has been a significant increase in interest surrounding the technology.

The Entire Blockchain Ecosystem in One Visualization

A new research report from Credit Suisse on Blockchain and the technology’s potential highlights that there are three fundamental properties of Blockchain that make it appealing to users, businesses and developers.

“A shared ledger requiring consensus to update, with tamper evident properties that is economically unfeasible for any single entity to retrospectively alter is a bigger disruptive threat. We find blockchain more easily optimizable to different objectives than bitcoin and think three key properties—disintermediation of trust, immutable record and smart contracts—endow the technology with real...

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