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by chapium 2363 days ago
What benefits does a distributed ledger such as blockchain provide enterprise scale users?
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in private consortiums, instead of having data locked up in silos across organisations, everyone can have a copy of the data and build their own view on top of it.

you don't have to trust any party as to the authenticity of the data as you can see every change that has been made.

I wrote about the supply chain use case here https://medium.com/twohands/lobsters-on-the-blockchain-df599...

and how I approach looking at distributed ledger tech here https://medium.com/@ben_longstaff/my-framework-for-how-to-lo...

:)

These problems are already solved with audit logs and apis. Especially at enterprise level.