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Investopedia defines Disruptive innovation as

"a technology whose application significantly affects the way a market functions."

Take Smartphones for example. Better yet, the internet. A powerful tool which significantly changed the way us humans and companies did business. Those who adopted it continually reap its rewards unlike those who do not, which are negatively impacted for not joining the bandwagon

''The Blockchain is Next''

While financial institutions rave about the potential for blockchain—the technology that powers bitcoin—as a way to revolutionize the financial world, it can also help keep private data secure. A blockchain is essentially a digital ledger that, thanks to some computational tricks, records every change made to it indelibly

Distributed ledger technology has been taking quite the spotlight during 2017. With the bullish bitcoin market (and speculated bubble), lots of things have been at work with other altcoins and Blockchain platforms. The Blockchain offers immense potential, and its crazy that many people don't know that.

Then again, nobody found the double entry accounting system cool until its adoption in the 1940's and how much it changed the way people did business. Way to go Luca Pacioli!

So what's the disruption, and how will it integrate? We hope that our infographic will give you a better insight on what is to come

The Government of Georgia

Is using Blockchain to register land titles and validate property-related government transactions., Bitfury Group, to design a blockchain land registry pilot with the Republic of Georgia's National Agency of Public Registry (NAPR), a new memorandum of understanding (MOU) has been signed to expand the offering of services.

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The UK government

Released a Blockchain-as-a-service platform allowing government agencies to experiment, build and deploy digital services based on distributed ledger technology. In 2016 work for welfare payments was trialed to prevent fraud and protect critical infrastructure and registering assets

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Estonian citizens and e-residents

Are provided a cryptographically secure digital ID card that is run on Blockchain platform (in the back-end) allowing access to various public services. Impacting e-voting and electronic health records

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Singapores Monetary Authority of Singapore

Completed a proof-of-concept pilot to experiment the use of Blockchain for inter-bank payments. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is partnering with R3, and a consortium of financial institutions on a proof-of-concept project to conduct inter-bank payments using blockchain and has released a new report detailing Project Ubin, an initiative triggered last year aimed at developing a tokenized form of the Singapore dollar (SGD) on a distributed ledger.

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Dubai

Has set up a Global Blockchain Council to explore current and future Blockchain applications. Launched in early 2016, the GBC boasts more than 47 members from both the public and private sectors, and the panel session saw new projects announced by IT giant IBM, telecom operator du and the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC), among others. Proofs-of-concept trials are covering health records, title transfer, business registration, digital wills, tourism engagement, shipping and even reducing the illicit diamond trade however the primary initiatives are aimed at enabling interoperability between loyalty platforms

Disruptive Innovation and Integration,

Blockchain Technology is coming through, get ready for a Technological Revolution!