Most of the things we buy aren’t made by a single entity, but by a chain of suppliers who sell their components (e.g., graphite for pencils) to a company that assembles and markets the final product.
The problem with this system is that if one of these components fails “the brand takes the brunt of the backlash.
Bitcoin, and the blockchain technology behind it, didn’t disrupt the world as was initially thought when Satoshi Nakamoto published his invention in 2009. More recently, however, digital currency, the IoT, and the blockchain have become some of the most widely discussed buzzwords — not only in the payment industry, but across multiple industries. In fact, …