Using Blockchain to Authenticate University Diploma
Since January of 2016, the French Ministry of Education has announced plans for the creation of a new digital platform which lets degree owners validate their document. As our society is transitioning to a Digital Age, it becomes more important than ever to digitize as much information as possible. Blockchain technology can be used for many different things, even though most people automatically associate this concept with the financial world. But by the look of things, individual French educational institutions are looking at the blockchain as a way to authenticate the universitarian....
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