As with other areas, the blockchain has the capacity to decentralizeeconomic organization creating distributed peer-to-peer networks for exchange. In so doing, greatly expand the scope and extent of economic markets and finance.And using the blockchain as an infrastructure to expand the opportunities of the global market economy to all is critical to enabling social sustainability through inclusion.

Because the blockchain is a secure system that enables a trusted network it may be described as a value-exchange protocol. In this respect, it is often said that what the web did for the exchange of information the blockchain does for the exchange of value. Just as the web revolutionized the use and exchange of information within society disrupting whole industries based upon the centralization of information, so to the blockchain is set to do the same for the recording and exchange of all forms of quantifiable value.

The information revolution is in the process of taking us into a new world of distributed networks as the organizational paradigm of the information age. The combination of telecommunication networks and computerized coordination enables us to replace centralized management within closed hierarchies with open networks. As the underlying technology matures we are able to convert more and more systems that were previously closed and centralized and have them manage through automated networks.

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The blockchain is a distributed ledger technology that underlies cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and platforms like Ethereum. It provides a way to record and transfer data that is transparent, safe, auditable, and resistant to outages. The blockchain has the ability to make the organizations that use it transparent, democratic, decentralized, efficient, and secure. It's a technology that holds a lot of promise for the future, and it is already disrupting many industries.

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In this video, we are going to give a very high-level overview looking at the primary dimensions of this technology that we call the blockchain. We will firstly talk about the underlying technology, then the distributed ledgers that this technology supports, then the token economies those can be built on that ledger system. We will only touch upon these topics here to get an overview before going into them in more detail in future videosLearn about the network at www.karibkan.com