Title: WHAT IS BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY WHY IS IT BELIEVED TO CHANGE THE WORLD
1WHAT IS BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY? WHY IS IT BELIEVED
TO CHANGE THE WORLD
2Blockchain
- The blockchain is a list of records also known as
blocks that grow continuously. - It is a digitized, decentralized, public ledger
of all cryptocurrency transactions. - It makes use of a distributed ledger technology
(DLT). - These are linked to each other and are also
secured with the help of cryptography.
3Benefits of Blockchain
- Transparency
- It is of increasing importance to consumers.
Provenance is a platform that helps brands
provide that transparency by tracing the origins
and histories of products. - Blockchain underpins this transparency, allowing
all partiessupplier, manufacturer, retailer and
end consumerto trace a products journey.
- Security
- Security issuance can be broken into two
components debt and equity. - In terms of debt equity, Overstock is still a
pioneer in blockchain technology adoption.
4Benefits of Blockchain
- Faster transactions
- Traditionally, the time taken to execute
transactions is longer and may take days to
process. - In this, the time taken is relatively lower and
take mere minutes to process.
- Less transaction costs involved
- The elimination of third parties in the
blockchain method reduces the transaction costs
involved. - This proves out to be beneficial for the users.
5Industries in which blockchain is used
- Cryptocurrency
- Blockchain gained wide recognition and is able to
achieve its current status due to the
cryptocurrency bitcoin. - Cryptocurrency market is now worth 500 billion,
that is more than Warren Buffetts Berkshire
Hathaway.
- Healthcare
- A community of hospitals, patients, doctors,
insurance companies and other related entities to
process the information faster and provide timely
service to the clients. - This can also be used to reduce the healthcare
payment frauds.
6Industries in which blockchain is used
- Banking and share markets
- Apart from providing the faster and better
services, it can also help to reduce the
maintenance costs of the banks and share market. - It can also be used in trade finance to detect
fraud as a number of merchants go to multiple
banks with the same invoice and get the bill
discounted.
- Automobile industry
- The automobile industry is also expected to be
impacted by the help of blockchain technology. - With the advent of self-driving cars, this can
play a major role in the payment methodology,
booking rides, and several such tasks.
7Industries in which blockchain is used
- Government
- Delays in the information impact the services
provided to the citizens and results in the
longer execution times of the project. - Having a shared data between the department helps
a great deal and also introduces transparency and
helps in faster execution. This can also help the
prevention of corruption.
- Law
- Huge amounts of data are accessed through
blockchains and transmitted. - To facilitate the legal procedure and payment, it
can be used with the help of smart contracts.
This removes the requirement of a middleman and
can help you to receive payments after the
milestones are met.
8Industries in which blockchain is used
- Defense
- In defense, any unauthorized access, modification
of critical defense infrastructure, operating
systems and network firmware is necessary as it
can compromise on the national security. - With the help of this technology and distributed
data centers can ensure your security against
attacks on important network and hardware
equipment.
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