Chronicle Will Make You Question the Need for Blockchain Technology
"Blockchain" is one of the hottest technology industry buzz-words of 2017. A lot of time, money, and engineering talent is being invested into building blockchain technologies. Despite the name, blockchain has nothing to do with the Cipher Block Chaining mode of encrypting large messages with a block cipher; instead, it's used to refer to a specific type of ledger, and more specifically to crypto-currencies like Bitcoin and Zcash.