{"id":15866,"date":"2016-01-24T22:50:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T04:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15866"},"modified":"2016-01-24T22:50:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T04:50:20","slug":"is-blockchain-the-most-important-it-invention-of-our-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15866","title":{"rendered":"Is Blockchain the most important IT invention of our age?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Like records of land ownership. Creating and maintaining incorruptible registers of land titles is a huge \u2013 and mostly unsolved \u2013 problem for developing countries. So when the government of Honduras launched an investigation into whether <a class=\" u-underline\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/briefing\/21677228-technology-behind-bitcoin-lets-people-who-do-not-know-or-trust-each-other-build-dependable\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"in-body-link\">a blockchain-based land registry<\/a> could solve it, the non-geek world sat up and began to take notice. The unmistakable message was that this technology could be much more useful than merely securing cryptocurrencies. It might actually turn out to be one of the biggest IT inventions of our time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/jan\/24\/blockchain-bitcoin-technology-most-important-tech-invention-of-our-age-sir-mark-walport\">Is Blockchain the most important IT invention of our age? | John Naughton | Opinion | The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like records of land ownership. Creating and maintaining incorruptible registers of land titles is a huge \u2013 and mostly unsolved \u2013 problem for developing countries. So when the government of Honduras launched an investigation into whether a blockchain-based land registry &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15866\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[742,1389,1060,338],"class_list":["post-15866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-bitcoin","tag-blockchains","tag-computer-science","tag-encryption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15867,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15866\/revisions\/15867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}