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Have you heard about blockchain technology? Here is a recent article published by thestar.com. Let’s get the conversation started<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Q: Blockchain seems to have come out of nowhere to become a hot topic in technology and finance but few people seem to truly understand it. What is blockchain?<\/p>\n

\"blockchain<\/a>A: We have spent two years researching this technology and have concluded, unequivocally, that blockchain technology is the second generation of the digital revolution. The first generation brought us the Internet of Information. The second generation \u2013 powered by blockchain \u2013 is bringing us the Internet of Value. So what is it? Blockchain is the ingeniously simple, revolutionary protocol that allows transactions to be simultaneously anonymous and secure, peer-to-peer, instant and frictionless<\/strong>. It does this by distributing trust from powerful intermediaries to a large global network, which through mass collaboration, clever code and cryptography, enables a tamper-proof public ledger of every transaction that\u2019s ever happened on the network.” Read the article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you heard about blockchain technology? Here is a recent article published by thestar.com. Let’s get the conversation started. “Q: Blockchain seems to have come out of nowhere to become a hot topic in technology and finance but few people seem to truly understand it. What is blockchain? 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