However, when it comes to disruption, it is
the underlying block chain technology that has the true potential to really change the world.
Not exact matches
The blockchain — the
technology underlying Bitcoin — is a distributed ledger made up of «
blocks» of data that is continuously growing, forming a single
chain of
blocks (hence
block -
chain).
But the
underlying cryptographic
technology, a growing
chain of time - stamped records or «
blocks» that is shared between many computers, forming a «blockchain,» could also be used to help save the environment, according to a commentary published today in Nature by Guillaume Chapron, an ecologist at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Riddarhyttan.