HALF MOON BAY, Calif. – Experts at a recent technology conference agreed that blockchain has a bright future, but warned it may be a rocky ride until that future arrives. Blockchain is a distributed database that uses a secure digital ledger of transactions that users can share across a computer network. It’s also the technology behind virtual currency bitcoin.
“当你在前缘时，会有错误。人们在未来五年内会得到很多错误。我认为它有点像用剪刀跑步，“星座研究分析师史蒂夫威尔逊在10月26日由他的公司主办的企业会议上。
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从左到右：MaxxSure的首席执行官Shawn Wiora，Silicon Valley产品Ecc Chirag Mehta，以及IBM的全球区块链条的Aron Dutta
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但是ShaptChain爱好者Richie Etwaru，首席数字人员IMS Health, had a different take. He started by pointing to the colorful pair of sneakers he was wearing and noted he bought them using bitcoin, the controversial digital currency that’s been plagued by security issues.
“我认为区块链是我生命中看到的最大的事情，”Etwaru说。“我在医疗保健和Bitcoin工作到区块链就像AOL聊天到互联网的那样，比特币只是一个阻塞子的证实。”
区块链可以帮助医疗保健行业建立信任
在医疗保健行业中，Etwaru说区块链可以帮助建立新的商业模式，以克服他描述的患者，医生，制药行业和政府中存在的巨大信任。
“We started thinking of how we can engineer trust into the network and the distributed ledger (i.e. blockchain) is a great way to solve the trust issue because the information is owned by everyone and no one, and can be seen by everyone and no one,” he says. “It’s immutable, you can’t reverse it, it’s pretty decently encrypted and it can be permissions-based.”
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One example Etwaru points to is that trials for new drugs are often flawed because patients don’t trust how their information is going to be used. “With blockchain you could do things like citizen research for healthcare. There could be autonomous organizations like a Wikipedia of research on cancer based on an abundance of trust enabled by blockchain,” said Etwaru.
区块链可以扰乱网络安全景观
首席创新官员Mike Kail蔓延一位寻求“扰乱网络安全景观”的公司与新服务表示，区块链让人们思考不同于可能的事情。
Kail表示，区块链技术承诺改变必须信任经纪人以完成金融交易的现状，以消除中间人的自动化交易系统。他更广泛地说话，他说区块链可以为每个公司带来更多的公司带来更多的公司。
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对于寻求测试区块链水域的公司，他建议弄清楚一个小用例，您可以在其中应用区块链方法并监控结果。
另一个发言者，肖恩维奥拉，Cofounder和首席执行官maxxsure.一个网络安全和网络保险公司，正在使用区块链提供新的服务。“我们能够为网络保险政策提供像可变保费，以便随着网络概况的变化变化，”维奥拉说。“还有其他人提供吗？”他修整地问道。
但即使有一些公司已经创新，Repetan Silicon Valley产品行政公爵Mehta表示，区块链的最佳日子显然是领先于此。“Blockchain看起来像是10或15年前的云看起来像什么，”SAP和Addunt教授，SAP和Santa Clara University的兼职教授Mehta说，他将这样的主题作为Web服务和云计算到研究生。
One difference he sees vs. the cloud though that’s surprised him, is that companies big and small seem to be interested in exploring blockchain’s potential. “Big companies weren’t as interested in the cloud in the early days,” says Mehta. “They weren’t as ready to jump in.”
他补充说，块链条确实很好，是提供了让您信任一系列事件所需的技术诚信。“但不要让安全性混淆，”他强调。
If blockchain needs a blue chip, big name advocate it has one in IBM. Aron Dutta, global head of blockchain at IBM, says he’s already running blockchain technology globally across industries. He sees blockchain as giving companies a way to rethink business models and make more money.
Dutta表示，他有超过4,000米的博士和100,000名顾问，他可以致电他在IBM的工作，所以保持调整。“这不是关于用例，”他强调。“这是关于商业模式。”
大卫针是一位基于硅谷的技术记者。
这个故事，“为什么区块链的增长痛苦是值得的”最初是出版的CIO. 。