Blockchain and Cloud
Over the past few years, technology innovations such as cryptocurrency have filled the news. Such technologies leverage a blockchain, which you can think of a cloud-based chain of recorded, dated, unchangeable, and encrypted transactions (called blocks). Such transactions might contain information about a car purchase, a student’s transcripts, or a patient’s healthcare records. After a transaction is recorded to the blockchain, the transaction cannot be changed without impacting all the preceding transactions (blocks).
Transactions within a blockchain reside in ledgers that reside within a peer-to-peer network. Such networks can be private, such as a business-specific chain, or public, such as that required for the bitcoin ...
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