WILL PRIVACY BE A STUMBLING BLOCK FOR BLOCKCHAIN?

摘要

Best known as the infrastructure underlying the wildly popular Bitcoin cryptocurrency, blockchain technology has really come into its own in the past year or so-being viewed, trialed and utilized as a means of better executing and sharing corporate documents, managing identity and authentication, even running an emerging social media network. Proponents say the beauty and attraction of blockchain is two-fold: it creates a decentralized or "shared" ledger of transactions and activities, and it is (thus far) immutable.