A Practitioner’s View on Distributed Storage Systems: Overview, Challenges and Potential Solutions
Michel Legault · Technology Innovation Management Review · 2021
Introduction The technology now called “blockchain” was originally conceived in Bitcoin as a decentralized e-commerce alternative to “financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments” (Satoshi Nakmoto, 2008). Blockchain was meant to usher in a “trust-less” model, where mechanisms (such as cryptographic proof) could enable all parties in a