Tieron: Using Blockchain Technology for Government Surveys

Tieron: Using Blockchain Technology for Government Surveys

Blockchain technology company Tieron is working with the Connecticut Technology Council (CTC), a non-profit organization encouraging local technology development. With this partnership, the CTC and Tieron plan to run a trial on finding government survey data using blockchain technology. Blockchain is the public ledger of bitcoin transactions, which are updated and verified by a network of computers solving complex algorithms in a process known as bitcoin mining. While bitcoin enjoyed its claim to fame a few years back, blockchain technology is gaining more attention these days thanks to....


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