But a staff analytical paper from the Bank of Canada is peeling back the layers of blockchain's proposed advantages and suggests most of its assets actually come from more - conventional technologies such as encryption and smart contracts.
«We applied the same analytical tools to sea ice that were used to demonstrate the link between Siberian snow cover, the Arctic Oscillation, and mid-latitude weather,» said Jason C. Furtado, Ph.D., staff scientist at AER and co-author of the paper.