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Bitcoin and Blockchain

vivekomon
January 24, 2017
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Bitcoin and Blockchain

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vivekomon

January 24, 2017
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  1. The first real-world transaction! 2 pizzas were bought for 10,000

    BITCOINs Today, 7 years later it’s worth $10 Million ≈ ₹70 Crores
  2. Tesla was bought for 91.4 Bitcoins, which at the time

    were equivalent to $100,000 in Finland
  3. MIT Media Lab Uses the Bitcoin Blockchain for Digital Certificates

    Slock.it reveals first ever Smart Locks Linked to Smart Ethereum Contracts
  4. 16 Percent of Healthcare Companies to Have Commercial Blockchain Solutions

    in 2017 https://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/gb/en/gbe03790usen/GBE03790USEN.PDF
  5. One country that has taken the early lead in pursuing

    a blockchain-based case study to facilitate the management of medical records is the Eastern European nation of Estonia. Through a collaborative partnership, the Estonian e-Health Authority is ensuring the integrity of data for its residents by securing over a million health records.
  6. In his book The Business Blockchain, thought leader and author,

    William Mougayar, briefly explores this emerging trend, noting that by his mid-2016 estimates, there were only “5,000 developers dedicated to writing software for cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, or blockchain in general.” He admits that “perhaps another 20,000 had dabbled with the technology, or have written front end applications that connect with the blockchain.” The Blockchain Developer Shortage