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Blockchain White Paper

National Archives Records Express

We are pleased to announce the release of our Blockchain White Paper. The white paper began as an internal effort to assist NARA staff in learning more about the technology and how agencies are using it.

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How blockchain enables trust in water trading

IBM Big Data Hub

These challenges include a combination of paper-based and digital processing, slow processing, ambiguity and a loss of trust in the market. Arup and IBM® saw these recommendations as an opportunity to take a leadership role and propose the implementation of a blockchain-enabled water trading platform.

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On Blockchain Voting

Schneier on Security

Blockchain voting is a spectacularly dumb idea for a whole bunch of reasons. I have generally quoted Matt Blaze : Why is blockchain voting a dumb idea? You may have heard of Voatz, which uses blockchain for voting. And this is my general essay on blockchain. Glad you asked. I’ve also quoted this XKCD cartoon.

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Illegal Content and the Blockchain

Schneier on Security

Now the content-delivery network Akamai has reported on a new method: a botnet that uses the Bitcoin blockchain ledger. Since the blockchain is globally accessible and hard to take down, the botnet’s operators appear to be safe. What if someone puts illegal material in the blockchain?

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Summary – “Blockchain Technology and Recordkeeping”

ARMA International

Blockchain is often defined as ledgers with entries organized in an append-only, sequential chain using cryptographic links and distributed out and stored on a peer-to-peer computer network. Chapter 2, “The Creation and Storage of Blockchain Records,” is about what records are generated by and stored in blockchain systems.

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Honey, I blockchained the library

CILIP

Honey, I blockchained the library. Honey, I blockchained the library. re in a similar place with blockchain ? blockchain? It can be quite fascinating to see how blockchain?s Periodic interventions are often needed to avoid regression to the mean, which is where a MacGuffin (like blockchain) can be especially handy.

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Blockchain Part of Sphereon’s Content Services Suite

Info Source

For a few years now, Harvey Spencer Associates has been promoting blockchain as a natural extension of capture technology. The Harvard Business Review describes blockchain as “an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way.”