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Blockchain isn't a household buzzword, like the cloud or the Internet of Things. It's not an innovation that you can see or touch as easily as a smartphone or a package from Amazon. But in a world where anyone can edit a Wikipedia entry; there is a big question on credibility & security of the data. Blockchain is the answer to a question we've been asking since the dawn of the internet age: How can we collectively trust what happens online? Every year we run more of our lives—more core functions of our governments, economies, and societies—on the internet. We do our banking online. We shop online. We log into apps and services that make up our digital space and send information back and forth. Think of blockchain as a historical fabric underneath recording everything that happens—every digital transaction; exchange of value, goods, and services; or private data—exactly as it occurs. Then the chain stitches that data into encrypted blocks that can never be modified and...