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Thoughts on Blockchain & Crypto

CaseInterview.com

People pay money to make problems go away. For me, I think blockchain technology architecture is interesting. Prior to the blockchain, data and applications were centralized. Blockchain technology is the opposite. I think the long-term potential of the blockchain has yet to be fully realized and is intriguing.

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BlockChain: Opportunities for the Consulting Industry

Tom Spencer

What is Blockchain? Blockchain is a decentralized network of computing units called nodes that facilitate peer to peer transactions without the need for a third party or a larger centralized server to facilitate or validate those transactions. Blockchain fulfills two needs fundamental to any financial transaction or legal contract.

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Chinese Activists Are Using Blockchain to Document #MeToo Stories

Harvard Business

One of our main jobs when teaching and advising students who are thinking of founding blockchain companies is to get them to question whether or not their idea actually requires it. How much does my business depend on other people being able to trust the data on which it is built?

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How New Technologies Could Transform Africa’s Health Care System

Harvard Business

In early June, at the invitation of the European Commission to Brussels (Belgium), I toured some fascinating AI and blockchain-based projects, which the Commission is funding. By bringing AI and blockchain together, CareAi uses an anonymous distributed healthcare architecture to deliver health services to patients anonymously.

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11 Things the Health Care Sector Must Do to Improve Cybersecurity

Harvard Business

How the most innovative providers are creating value. Second, health care organizations have been slow to adopt practices that have worked for other industries. No industry or sector is immune to hacking. The estimated loss to the industry is $5.6 billion per year. These stats should be a wake-up call for the entire industry.

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What Will Your Industry Look Like in 2030? - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DELL TECHNOLOGIES

Harvard Business

The research revealed a divided vision of the future but common ground on the need to transform and how. So if they don’t know what their industries are going to look like and how the world is going to change, we feel as a vendor it’s our job to have a point of view and to explain that to our customers.

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Understanding Non-fungible tokens (NFTs)

Tom Spencer

NFTs are similar to cryptocurrency in that they use blockchain technology to record data. NFTs cannot be duplicated because they are cryptographically secured on a blockchain, which functions like a decentralized database that is automatically confirmed by all of the other parties to the network, making it highly reliable and trustworthy.

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