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RE: BraveNewCoin: 15 blockchain whitepapers awarded winners of US Department of Health and Human Services Challenge

in #money8 years ago

A blockchain is like a decentralised database, it can be stored in multiple locations and data sharded and replicated across all, not so easy to do with a normal centralised database. The other thing is blockchain in most cases is transparent and can be explored by anyone, whereas traditional databases are usually private.