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Is the Blockchain Right For My Organization?


This approach has worked well. While I've enjoyed the edX course, I've learned even more digging further into key concepts behind the blockchain to better understand how it works. During those blog posts I wrote with myself as the reader in mind.

Taking this course has been similar to learning a new language. At first I had to build up my vocabulary and get a feel for how to pronounce all these new words. And as I've done that, I've started to think about what I can do with all these new words and tools.

As I look ahead I want to write with a different reader in mind. A reader who wants to know whether or not the blockchain is right for his or her organization. Whether or not the blockchain is right for an organization, of course, depends on the organization and their needs. That being said, there are a number of use cases I can play out to give others a better idea of what the blockchain is capable of.

More specifically, I am particularly interested in how private blockchains can leverage Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

 Going forward there will be two different kinds of posts on this blog; there will be posts that cover how the blockchain works as driven by the edX course and there will be posts where I think out loud about blockchain use cases.

To make this fun and a bit of a challenge, I am going to take a fictitious pain point at a given non-profit and then use an API and an IoT sensor to come up with different applications and use cases. 

I hope you enjoy the blog's new direction and that it helps us all better understand how we can use the blockchain.
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