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Article author here. Wow was I surprised to see this on Hacker News! It's my view that decentralized systems will almost always be less efficient than centralized systems. This is …

"That may indeed be beneficial, but isn't the panacea that is being touted." We agree. That's the primary conclusion of the report.

Part of the challenge is that the word blockchain is misused. Here's a quote from the first page: “…the term ‘blockchain’ has been so misappropriated that no one knows what it mean…

No one is advocating putting medical records on the blockchain. That's crazy. He's talking about using a technology like Tierion or Chainpoint to anchor a hash of the data in the b…

Thanks for reading the report. This last weekend there was the first Blockchain Healthcare conference where blockchain was pitched as a panacea for a wide spectrum of healthcare pr…

I'm not Chris Derose, but I play him on TV.

Bitcoin is a bearer asset. If you have the private keys, you can spend the Bitcoin. Blockchain based digital assets require a middleman to confer ownership of a physical asset base…

The insurance companies are relying on an outside network of vendors. They are currently exchanging data using FTP/email and .CSV files. The usual controls for compliance, data-int…

Disclaimer: I designed the Factom Explorer and played a significant role in the launch of Factom. That's a big question. Here are a few points: 1) Tierion does not require an altco…

The data is not stored in the blockchain. Instead, Tierion generates a blockchain receipt for each record, which provides irrefutable proof that your data was recorded in the Bitco…

Tierion Founder here. Very cool to see us on Hacker News! Here's a real world example: We recently won the Coindesk hackathon by building an insurance claims processing application…

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