Blockchain Technology: What Is It Good for?
Scott Ruoti, Ben Kaiser, Arkady Yerukhimovich, Jeremy Edmund Clark, Rob Cunningham · Queue · 2019
Business executives, government leaders, investors, and researchers frequently ask the following three questions: (1) What exactly is blockchain technology? (2) What capabilities does it provide? (3) What are good applications? Here we answer these questions thoroughly, provide a holistic overview of blockchain technology that separates hype from reality, and propose a useful lexicon for discussing the specifics of blockchain technology in the future.