In the eight years since Satoshi Nakomoto created Bitcoin, there has been a lot of interest in applying the underlying technology, the blockchain, to other problems in finance. The blockchain or the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) as it is often called brings benefits like Byzantine fault tolerance, disintermediation of trusted third parties and resilience to… Continue reading The blockchain as an ERP for a whole industry
Month: January 2017
In the sister blog during September-December 2016
The following posts appeared on the sister blog (on Financial Markets and their Regulation) during September-December 2016. Financial crises prior to the typewriter Euro Introduction as Demonetization A digital device for every Indian More on cash alternatives Cash and credit redux Why not a helicopter drop of new rupee notes? It is not money but… Continue reading In the sister blog during September-December 2016
Prof. Jayanth R Varma's blog on computing 