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Blockchain technology is changing the thinking and processes of the global economy – but it's only the beginning.
Despite the comprehensive and seemingly endless meltdown of cryptocurrency assets, the blockchain technology continues to be significant in its integration into the major sectors of the global economy. To be seen as a blockbuster – also known as distributed ledger technology (DLT) – as a failed technology, a passing fad or even a fraud, this technological innovation is nothing less than a paradigm shift on par with the internet.
Guilt by Association
Still, there's no question that the blockchain's reputation has been tainted by the cryptocurrency debacle. In addition to its breathtaking innovations, first generation blockchain has indeed serious flaws. It was not designed to handle the long-term demands of large companies and groups. It lacks flexibility and scalability, resulting in an ever-slower consensus process, Plus, because it is permissionless and open, privacy is problematic.
The good news is that blockchain has greatly improved. The technology has gone through a variety of successful adaptions, adjustments and second-generation development, with necessities like scale-ability, flexibility, permissioned, rapid consensus, more secure data transmission, and system integrity and privacy added.
A Long-Term Trend With Challenges
But, like many long-term trends, the ramp-up has not been smooth or immediate. Obstacles remain. These include identifying the most effective adoption procedures, standardizing internal and international protocols, infrastructure adjustments, industry-wide reciprocation and other practical application needs. In the spite of these hurdles, in the spite of these hurdles.
The rise of the cybersecurity industry may provide a template for blockchain's ascension. Despite many challenges, in the span of a few years, organizations of all types and sizes embraced cybersecurity technology for their own internal requirements. What's more, that market continues to grow. Cybersecurity is projected to mushroom into $ 1 trillion industry by 2021.
Likewise, there's a very reasonable expectation that blockchain will follow and even exceed cybersecurity's rapid growth. In fact, by 2030, Gartner projects the blockchain market to exceed $ 3 trillion. From the intelligence to produce tracking, it may reach that mark well before then.
Follow the Money
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Healthcare Industry As Early Adopter
Healthcare providers are using blockchain because of its benefits in cost savings, efficiency, accuracy, security, flexibility and scalability are unprecedented. The demand for it is urgent. As Solve.Care CEO Pradeep Goel noted:
"This is not an issue of blockchain when I will start working in healthcare. It is starting to work. … Once you have the right framework in place, then the use cases will flood into and that is what we are experiencing. "
What's more, as former U.S. Senate Majority Leader and former thoracic surgeon Bill Frist writes in the November 13, 2018 edition of Forbes magazine, Change Healthcare and TIBCO Software are building the first smart contract system for healthcare. They will use the Healthcare Change Intelligent Healthcare Network technology and TIBCO's smart contract developer project, Project Dovetail ™.
Both providers and patient are clear. Smart contracts means falling costs, greater accuracy in patient and clinical data tracking, and ultimately, a more patient-centered experience that will deliver better outcomes.
Defense Adoption of Blockchain
Those are also what led Lockheed Martin to become the first U.S. defense partner to adopt blockchain technology. In partnership with Guardtime Federal, Lockheed Martin is using blockchain technology for "fielding new capabilities for mission survivability in a global cyber persistent threat environment."
In fact, blockchain's unrivaled security, rapidity and accuracy in the recording and transmission of the major powers of the world. Today, the U.S., Russian and Chinese defense establishments, among others, are investing in, testing and integrating blockchain technology into various aspects of their military establishments and operations. It's not a question of "if" but "when" defense systems integration of blockchain is fully adopted.
A New Blockchain Designed for Global Business
Second generation purpose-built blockchain technologies are driving into the financial realm. One example of second generation blockchain is Hyperledger Fabric, from the Linux Foundation. It was created by a group of companies, including leadership from IBM, and is specifically designed to "accommodate the complexity and intricacies that exist across the economic ecosystem."
Hyperledger Fabric differs from first generation blockchain in that it's a community ledger made up of members or peer groups, called peer nodes. Peers are, by definition, trustworthy. That eliminates the need for time consensus, upon which blockchain relies is heavily and which severely inhibits the speed of authentication.
What's more, peer nodes are based on a highly elastic and extensible modular architecture. This is the first generation blockchain to be implemented in the first generation blockchain.
In other words, this latest version enables, accelerates and safeguards major financial transactions that are integral to the rapid exchange functions necessary for the global financial system. Intellectual property rights across borders and economic zones.
Banks Around the World Want to Adopt Blockchain
Financial groups and banks worldwide are in the process of adopting and applying blockchain technologies.
It is not surprising that it is not surprising that And they're not alone, either. Are from the Far East (Thailand) to Oceania are testing Hyperledger Fabric for their next generation of contracts and international transaction platforms.
It is important to note that, in many cases, it is likely to be gradual than immediate. But as more transitions occur, more momentum will gather in favor of adoption and those failing to adapt to adapt-or-perish decision. But that's not a new phenomenon. Companies and organizations of all kinds, industries and sizes
Protection Against Malevolent Disruptions
China, Russia, and other adversaries, advanced blockchain technology, from the United States and the United Kingdom. Maintaining data security and veracity is key to securing our social and infrastructural systems, streamline operations and most of all, to protect us.
From the perspective, the faster the blockchain revolution happens, the better off we'll be.
Blockbuster is an organization that deals with the process of blocking an attack on potential problems.
For skeptics, it seems that nothing short of a total, worldwide adoption of the distributed ledger technology will validate it. But such myopia reminds one of the same criticisms leveled against the internet's revolutionary – and evolutionary – development.
But neither ignorance nor pessimism can change the fact that organizations and governments around the world are in various stages of testing deploying blockchain. The reason is simple: it is unmatched in its ability to secure data and IP, reduce friction from international transactions, coordinate highly complex interacting systems, and much more.
Today, the blockchain revolution is real and transformational. Looking back, critics will realize just how fast the transformation to blockchain really was and how they did not see it coming.
JAMES GORRIE IS A WRITER BASED IN TEXAS. HE IS THE AUTHOR OF "THE CHINA CRISIS."
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