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What is BLOCKCHAIN and why does it matter to Foundations of Data Management Rick Hull 11 April 2016. What is BLOCKCHAIN?. Blockchain provides the foundation for BITCOIN Blockchain is a mystery story: Who is (or who are) Satoshi Nakamoto ??
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What is BLOCKCHAIN and why does it matter to Foundations of Data ManagementRick Hull11 April 2016
What is BLOCKCHAIN? • Blockchain provides the foundation for BITCOIN • Blockchain is a mystery story: Who is (or who are) Satoshi Nakamoto ?? • Blockchain is a new approach to managing/monitoring financial (and other) transactions • Shared single point of truth • Immutable • Non-repudiable (author cannot later deny that s/he signed a document) • The Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology ExplainedRodrigo Henrik << https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSP-taqLWPQ >> Single source of truth (replicated across many nodes) From “Trusted Middleman” Paradigm … … to …
Blockchain is becoming a new workflow enabler Bitcoin is one of many applications of Blockchain Blockchain can represent many different kinds of valued object Example of distributed transaction from IBM: Import parts -- >10 organizations, >30 documents Blockchain blocks are programmable function Start() { echo “Hello, world!”; } ID: 1AtFaRrPFiwm2xUYN2C41edGgKPR5AXYDh Blockchain is shared view of entire trxn, accessed through views by each stakeholder
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