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Blockchain: Just because it’s a buzzword doesn’t mean it’s not the future of the supply chain

In the 2018 contaminated lettuce incident, what if it had been possible to trace the exact path of each shipment of lettuce and then remove from the marketplace only those products that could reasonably have been affected? With blockchain, that would have been possible.

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"Not there yet": Bank of Canada experiments with blockchain wholesale payment system

The Bank of Canada embarked on Project Jasper to learn more about the feasibility, benefits and challenges of using DLT as the basis for a wholesale interbank payment system. These systems are crucial mechanisms for the financial industry that allow large financial institutions to process payments to each other as well as to and from central banks.

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Blockchain and privacy: Transparency and innovation pose challenges for data protection

A blockchain is a peer network of nodes that use a distributed ledger that can be used to track transactions involving value including money, votes, property, etc. The most well-known application of blockchain technology is bitcoin. Transactions on a blockchain are not regulated by any central counterparty: the individuals involved in a given transaction provide their information (including personal information), a record is created that can be verified by nodes in the network. In this sense, the users forming the community act as their own regulators.

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