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Centralized vs. blockchain: A head-to-head comparison of storage requirements

kwiecień 22, 2019 
 
 In an earlier blog post, we addressed blockchain energy dependency. This time we take a look at blockchain storage requirements. Indeed, blockchain’s distributed data structure results in a significantly higher storage demand compared to traditional centralized databases. However, central systems...

As home to the world’s largest blockchain hackathon, the City of Groningen sought to understand how blockchain might be relevant to its debt relief ecosystem. Groningen and the Groningse Kredietbank (GKB) partnered with CGI to help refine this idea and...

Nancy Amert

The blockchain bowling alley: How distributed ledger technology goes mainstream

lipiec 20, 2018 Many technologies have come and gone over the past decades. Some were hyped concepts that flopped (beenz, anyone?). Others that started from humble beginnings became ubiquitous. While every technology faces its own adoption trajectory, the majority go through fairly predictable...