Blockchain: It may be surprising that Bitcoin, the much hyped cryptocurrency didn’t make the list, but the technologies online ledger, the blockchain has supplanted the digital denomination as the rising business star. Unlike traditional, centralized records, a blockchain is decentralized. The permanent record is not stored in one location, but exists on nodes spread across the system. This design makes it difficult to lose records or tamper with them. Aztec entrepreneur, Alad Gill, told Big Think in an interview, blockchain systems are effectively censorship proof or seizure resistance. In other words, the government can’t come and take your asset if you’re in a country that has a very bad governance.
