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6. Blockchain: Out Of the Lab, Into the Real World
Blockchain isn’t going away either: in 2017 we’re going to see blockchain, blockchain everywhere (and still not a bitcoin to spend), from saving bankers millions on derivatives, to good old money transfer systems, to e-commerce.
2017 may not be the year that everything will run on blockchain, but it’s certainly going to be the year we take those all-important first steps–away from proof-of-concepts and into the big bad financial world. Remember blockchain-for-data? We’re going to start seeing a lot more of that too.
It’s just over a week into the new year, and already new blockchain projects for payment, trade, and other areas of banking have been announced–while projects like Hyperledger and R3 continue to grow.
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