We have heard about it, read about it, and watch about it. Many financial experts are no longer talking about the usual loans (https://www.forafinancial.com/blog/working-capital/pros-cons-unsecured-business-loans/) that help people and businesses get back on their feet. Rather, they are now fuzzing about how blockchain is going to change the financial industry and how it can transform one nation’s economy to a better and more stabilized economy. Cryptocurrency and the so-called blockchain is changing the way we will view currency, money, and business.

For an average person like you and me, these can be an overwhelming transformation because we are so used with the traditional way we deal with money. But as change is inevitable, we will have to embrace these changes and learn the words of the modern financial system. This is not far in the future. Change is happening now and we are obliged to know these changes.

The Blockchain Revolution

Blockchain – What You Need To Know?

Blockchain is revolutionary for a few reasons. First of all, it is distributed. So What is blockchain? Blockchain is a database. This is an important thing to remember. Don’t get mystified by talk of Byzantine consensus and cryptographic algorithms. All of that is going to be irrelevant if you are going to use blockchain. You don’t need to know how electricity works in order to turn on that light switch is the same manner as you don’t need to know what Byzantine consensus means in order to use blockchain.

Here is what you do need to know. Blockchain is a distributed database meaning there are lots of different copies of the same information instead of having these data silos that are very hard to get to. So blockchain can help improve the transparency of information. Now you can get to the information when you need it rather than having to fight your way through various data pockets in order to get the things together in one place.

Blockchain is Highly Cyber-resilient.

This means blockchain is resilient to attack or fraud. Now that we have made banking go electronic, bank theft consists of hacking a database. The SWIFT has found this, the Central Bank of Bangladesh experienced a large bank theft, and there have been many other bank thefts that have been perpetrated by hackers who drill into one database, change an entry in the ledger and steal the money.

With blockchain, there are many different copies of that ledger, many copies of the database that all talk to each other to make sure when someone wants to inject new information that it’s actually legitimate and this makes it more cyber-resilient because the hacker would have to hack a thousand copies of the database in order to change the database.