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A Brief History of Blockchain

Harvard Business Review

Almost every major financial institution in the world is doing blockchain research at the moment, and 15% of banks are expected to be using blockchain in 2017. A scaled blockchain is expected to be fast enough to power the internet of things and go head-to-head with the major payment middlemen (VISA and SWIFT) of the banking world.

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Traditional Strategy Is Dead. Welcome to the #SocialEra

Harvard Business Review

But too many major companies — Bank of America, Sports Authority, United Airlines, Best Buy, and Walmart to name just a few — that need to get it, don't. So before we can explore the Social Era, we need to disaggregate two words — social is not always attached to the word media.