Gov’t in U.S. First to Record Survey on Bitcoin's Blockchain
There have been many smaller mainstream uses of the public recording information into Bitcoin’s Blockchain. Marriages and financial shareholding have also started to use blockchain technology. Now, for the first time, government survey information is being sent to the world’s most technologically-advanced online ledger. The watershed moment was recently recorded in the state of Connecticut by Tierion, who’s business concept is to record information onto Bitcoin’s Blockchain. State of Connecticut officials sought out Tierion to survey the state’s top 200 technology companies to learn how....
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