Deploying AI in the Enterprise: IT Approaches for Design, DevOps, Governance, Change Management, Blockchain, and Quantum Computing

© Eberhard Hechler, Martin Oberhofer, Thomas Schaeck 2020

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11. AI and Blockchain

Eberhard Hechler¹ , Martin Oberhofer² and Thomas Schaeck³

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Sindelfingen, Germany

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Boeblingen, Germany

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Boeblingen, Germany

 

Most people believe that the paper from 2008¹ by Satoshi Nakamoto, a pseudonym used by a yet unknown author, introduced the concept of blockchain. However, the key idea is actually 17 years older. The first mentioning of key blockchain concepts goes back to 1991² when Stuart Haber and Scott Stornetta described the concept of a cryptographically secured chain of blocks for the first time.

Blockchain is at its core an immutable, shared ledger application which ...