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The Biggest Tech To Hit Wall Street Since The Internet is Not Yet Ready For Prime Time

Kate Moloney Mit Cisr
Mary Lacity University Of Missouri St Louis Mit Cisr
June 07, 2017
It’s not an overstatement to say that blockchain is one of the most evangelized technologies out there today. Everywhere you look new companies are promising that blockchain will be a game changer for everything from banking to energy to walking.
But is the technology ready for enterprise deployment?
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Beyond Bitcoin: Digital Currency Among Many Industrial Applications For Blockchain

Dorothy Pomerantz
May 22, 2017
Ben Beckmann works as the lead scientist in the complex systems engineering lab at GE Global Research in Niskayuna, New York. In 2012, he made a seemingly inconsequential wager: He bet one of his colleagues that the electronic currency bitcoin would fail.
Bitcoins started trading for pennies after the currency launched in 2009. Today, you can buy one bitcoin for $2,200. Beckmann lost the bet and took his colleague for a nice meal. “If we had taken the $100 we spent on dinner and invested it in bitcoins at the start, we would be millionaires,” Beckmann laughs.
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