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Irving Wladawsky-Berger

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    • Blockchain Marks the Next Step in the Internet’s Evolution
      2 Aug 2019—The Wall Street Journal
      “Blockchain matters because no business operates in isolation,” says "Blockchain for Business," a recent book by Jai Arun, Jerry Cuomo and Nitin Gaur. “By implementing business processes that leverage the collective knowledge of the group, processes can be orders of magnitude more cost-efficient.” Since it first came to light over a decade ago as the public, distributed ledger for the bitcoin cryptocurrency, people have struggled to understand what blockchain is and what it’s good for. This...
    • Blockchain: The Networked Ecosystem Is the Business
      31 May 2019—The Wall Street Journal
      Since it first came to light a decade ago as the public, distributed ledger for bitcoin, people have struggled to understand what blockchain is all about and whether it has the potential to become a transformative technology over time. With few exceptions, the answer is positive, although plenty of challenges remain in its path, according to a recently published report, Building Your Blockchain Advantage, by Andrew Martin and Smitha Soman of International Business Machines Corp. Based on the...
    • Blockchain, Yesterday’s Hype, Transitions Into Something Else
      7 Mar 2019—The Wall Street Journal
      In MIT Technology Review, Mike Orcutt succinctly summarized the current state of blockchain: “In 2017, blockchain technology was a revolution that was supposed to disrupt the global financial system. In 2018, it was a disappointment. In 2019, it will start to become mundane… After the Great Crypto Bull Run of 2017 and the monumental crash of 2018, blockchain technology won’t make as much noise in 2019. But it will become more useful.” Most potentially transformative technologies go through...
    • Blockchain Beyond the Hype
      20 Dec 2018—The Wall Street Journal
      With cryptocurrencies having lost more than 80% of their market value from their high in January, it's a fair question to ask what this means for blockchain, the technology underlying the turbulent crypto market. There's a difference, of course. Blockchain's true potential value lies not in making--or losing--the quick buck, but in helping solve some of the internet's biggest challenges around authentication and security. But it can be hard to identify that long-term value given the hype...
    • The Emergence of a Blockchain-Based Token Economy
      3 Aug 2018—The Wall Street Journal
      “Blockchain Revolution,” published in May of 2016 by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott, was one of the first books that explained the promise of blockchain technologies to the general public. Its central argument is that for nearly four decades, the internet has been great for reducing the costs of searching, collaborating, and exchanging information. But it’s lacked the necessary trust, security and privacy safeguards to move assets of value. With blockchain, we’re now seeing the emergence of...

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