What are Blockchains?
Blockchain is the brainchild of a pseudonymous identity Satoshi Nakamoto from the famous Bitcoin project. While Bitcoin introduced Blockchain technology to the world, Blockchain has been identified to be way more capable than just aiding transfer of digital tokens.
Beyond Bitcoin, the Blockchain is just getting started!
Understanding Blockchain
“The blockchain is an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions that can be programmed to record not just financial transactions but virtually everything of value.”
– Don & Alex Tapscott, authors Blockchain Revolution (2016)
Blockchains are a way to implement a distributed ledger, a record of consensus with a cryptographic audit trail, which is maintained and validated by several separate nodes.
Speed: Blockchain technology enables about near time settlement possibilities between different untrusted entities helping to optimise your business processes more effectively.
Security: Built on secure cryptographic digital signature technologies, blockchain helps to reduce fraud and establish trust and accountability.
Privacy: While adopting an unprecedented level of transaction transparency, blockchain technology gives provision for acceptable levels of privacy for identity when used correctly.
Redundancy: Decentralised nodes/replicas distributed geographically along with immutability enhances network authenticity with robust uptime.
Scalability: Network uptime and performance are directly proportional to the number of nodes. Blockchain enables rapid deployment of the nodes and reduces the cost & time for the business to establish across geography.
Transparency: Blockchain has the potential to bring heightened transparency in transaction propagation which would help in tracking asset ownership.