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Busting the Myth of Public Blockchains for Business | Richard Gendal Brown

Richard Brown, the CTO of R3 and someone who definitely knows what he is talking about, has some pretty harsh words to say about Ethereum as a platform for Enterprise Shared Ledger (ESL) applications.

And yet consultants, some from reputable firms, are pushing this technology hard in to organisations that don’t always possess the technical expertise to realise the advice may not be appropriate.

From Busting the Myth of Public Blockchains for Business | Richard Gendal Brown.

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