Chapter 6Enterprise Blockchain Economics

Blockchains and distributed ledgers provide significant opportunities in the areas of cost control, cost reduction, and cost avoidance. In this chapter, I will discuss how blockchains and distributed ledgers can facilitate impressive total cost of ownership (TCO) scenarios and clearly improve return on investment (ROI) for finance-technical (fintech) use cases.

If you're an IT vendor, integrator, or VAR, you need to understand the cost models so you can provide value to your customer base. When you are participating in discussions about blockchains, it's imperative to be able to compare legacy systems costing models to blockchain models.

The goal of this chapter is to explain how to justify implementations ...

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