Deloitte Uses Facebook, Bitcoin Blockchain to Improve Warranties
Deloitte found a way to use blockchain technology to improve product warranties at its recent three-day hackathon. The innovative product warranty demonstrates how blockchain can improve a regular task such as managing a product warranty. A summary of the application has been posted on the Deloitte website. Consumers have long found product warranties problematic since warranties are easily lost. Being recorded on paper, warranties can also become unreadable over time. One of the design problems addressed at the hackathon was to provide a service that makes activating, using and changing a....
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