This paper takes a first pass at assessing areas of implementation for distributed ledger (or blockchain) technology in … monitoring, smart energy, and supply chain management. A discussion of the main benefits, risks and implementation challenges …

The blockchain is a technology that goes beyond timestamping, bitcoin and secure financial transactions. The … development of an ecosystem around smart connected objects will probably not happen without the blockchain (in one form or another …). The blockchain opens the door to the liquification of the physical world, to the economy of real-time micro …