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The actual bit that catches the eye of enterprises seems to be solving one of these two problems: * reconciling all the data in one place * having a tamper-ev
by davidgerard 8y ago
The actual bit that catches the eye of enterprises seems to be solving one of these two problems:
* reconciling all the data in one place
* having a tamper-evident ledger of transactions
The second just puts logs in a 1979-style Merkle tree, and the first is 100% getting organisations working together and doing the hard tech-debt slog of cleaning up your data and formats.
If you have both problems, your problem is enough of a human/business mess that applying a blockchain won't fix any aspect, but may well make it worse.
Occasionally "blockchain" will be useful as a buzzword to get funding.