H τεχνολογία Βlockchain αλλάζει τον τρόπο
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με τον οποίο συναλλασσόμαστε!
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4/21/2016
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H τεχνολογία Βlockchain αλλάζει τον τρόπο με τον οποίο συναλλασσόμαστε! Η Ισραηλινή νεοφυής επιχείρηση Digital Assets Holdings, με βάση τη Νέα Υόρκη, εισάγει την παραπάνω τεχνολογία στον τομέα της χρηματοοικονομίας. Η Digital Assets Holdings είναι μία από τις πολλές Ισραηλινές επιχειρήσεις FinTech που έχουν προσκελκύσει τα τελευταία χρόνια την προσοχή πολλών διεθνών χρηματοοικονομικών εταιριών.
Bitcoin. Cryptocurrencies. The dark web. Such terms have been associated with blockchain technology, but they do not convey its potential, which experts are comparing to the birth of the internet.
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“Blockchain is essentially a data structure,” says Shaul Kfir, the Israeli CTO of Digital Asset Holdings. At Santander InnoVentures’ recent FinTech conference in Tel Aviv, Kfir explained the technology to a crowd of international bankers and (thankfully) used words that most could follow: “From a logical perspective, it’s centralized; we could be a lot of participants looking into one database. But from an infrastructure perspective, the database is distributed – there is no one point that is the administrator,” said the Technion alumnus.
Based in New York, Digital Assets Holdings has recently raised $60 million (that’s their Series A) from the likes of Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan to develop blockchain technology for the financial services sector. The year old startup is one of the hundreds of Israeli FinTech startups that have sprung up in recent years and attracted the attention of international financial corporations, such as Toronto-based D+H, which last year acquired Israeli banking software specialist Fundtech for $1.25 billion.
The proprietary problem
Yet blockchain technology has received particular interest because it could transform the way that banks record transactions, potentially saving them billions of dollars.
If implemented, blockchain systems would record new transactions in the form of digital ‘blocks.’ These non-erasable bits of data would be added to the chain of previous transactions, and that transaction history could be viewed and verified by all participants. In the case of the cryptocurrency bitcoin, which is just one application of blockchain, the shared ledger contains a verifiable digital record of every single bitcoin transaction ever...
Διαβάστε όλοκληρο το άρθρο: http://nocamels.com/2016/03/blockchain-technology-change-transactions/
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