Blockchain

Block Chain Technology: Made in the 90's

By craftsman2012
  • Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta publish "How to Time Stamp a Digital document"

    Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta publish "How to Time Stamp a Digital document"

    https://www.anf.es/pdf/Haber_Stornetta.pdf "A variation that may be particularly useful for business documents is to time-stamp a log of
    documents rather than each document individually. For example, each corporate document created
    in a day could be hashed, and the hash value added to the company's daily log of documents. "
  • Surety starts publishing document id's in NYT

    Surety starts publishing document id's in NYT

    Ran the timestamp document through a cryptographic hashing algorithm, which produces a unique ID for the document. If even a single bit is changed in the document and it is run through the hashing algorithm again, the ID will be totally different. The new york times served as the ledger.
  • Bitcoin.org registered on 18 August 2008

    Bitcoin.org registered on 18 August 2008

  • U.S. Government spends $80.7B to Bailout the auto industry

    U.S. Government spends $80.7B to Bailout the auto industry

    In response, the companies promised to fast-track development of energy-efficient vehicles. https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/tg31.aspx
  • Man buys two pizzas with bitcoin worth $82M

    Man buys two pizzas with bitcoin worth $82M

  • FMCSA unveils new ELD rule

    FMCSA unveils new ELD rule

    "..use of ELDs should help save 26 lives and prevent 1,844 crashes involving large commercial motor vehicles annually."(FMCSA, 2015)
  • Electronic Logging Devices add blockchain tech to secure logs

    Electronic Logging Devices add blockchain tech to secure logs

    BC can be used to verify data transactions between carriers, shippers,vendors, etc. FHWA estimates $26.70/hour delay cost.