The Blockchain Opportunity: Last Call

Since Bitcoin's sudden popularization after the 2008 financial crisis its enabling technology, Blockchain, has been heralded as the 'next big thing'. Yet almost a decade has past, and both Bitcoin and Blockchain still appear far from fulfilling their promise of disruption. However, Blockchain might finally be climbing the ‘slope of enlightenment’ towards the ‘plateau of productivity’.

This Knowledge Sharing article – awarded 2nd Place in the 2017 Knowledge Sharing Competition – will help technologists position themselves to take advantage of this Blockchain opportunity. Carlos Freire and Luiz Pissinatti present some interesting use cases - e.g. smart contracts, distributed cloud storage, electronic voting, among others - and share their opinion as to the consequences these examples might have in our lives.

To better explore these use cases, this article also provides a brief technical introduction to blockchain itself, a quick history of its unconventional beginnings and current development.

Actionable steps are provided that individuals and organizations might want follow to take advantage of what the authors perceive as the “last call” for the Blockchain opportunity.

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