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One of the best explanations of why Business Blockchain is not like Bitcoin or its assorted altcoins is actually this post from the R3 Consortium:

https://r3cev.com/blog/2016/4/4/introducing-r3-corda-a-distr...

Their Corda Distributed Ledger Designed for Financial Services seems the most sensible of all the Business Blockchain approaches: after careful consideration of the fact that the Bitcoin-style blockchain was expressly designed to be the direct opposite of what large paying customers with money want, their “Blockchain Product” does not, in its default configuration ... contain a blockchain.

PREDICTION: Merkle trees are great, and business is about to discover how to use them as a tamper-evident ledger. That's what will be left of this in a year or so. Possibly branded "Blockchain".



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