Is Blockchain the Most Important IT Invention of Our Age? (theguardian.com)

mspohr writes: This article makes a fairly persuasive argument for the utility of the blockchain. It discusses a wide variety of companies and government exploring blockchain to maintain secure records which cannot be altered. One interesting application is to use blockchain to maintain property records in many countries where these records are often incomplete and are easily corrupted (intentionally or unintentionally). A linked article in The Economist expands the thought and discusses changes to the blockchain to improve performance, reduce overhead and accommodate different uses. (See also this related poll.)

Comments

Define "Age"

[sunderland56]

Normal definition is 99 million years. So, no; most important IT invention is probably the digital computer.

Re:You bitcoin groupies aren't even trying anymore

[Anonymous Coward]

they see me tradin, they hatin

Re:No, C and C++ are the most important.

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

C has been around for over 40 years. C++ has been around for over 30 years. In all that time we haven't seen even one single other language seriously compete with either of them.

Oh c'mon, what about Javascript? Wait, why are you laughing??