{"id":41132,"date":"2019-09-19T03:23:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T03:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/?p=41132"},"modified":"2024-03-04T13:20:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T21:20:28","slug":"practice-changes-the-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/practice-changes-the-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice changes the theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of what we have written about concerns new peer-to-peer paradigms, which are inspired by blockchain and BTC (Bitcoin).\u00a0 If financial networks can be peer-to-peer, what about other things?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s time to look in the other direction.\u00a0 Is blockchain supporting old paradigms?\u00a0 It is.\u00a0 In terms of how things worked a couple of industrial revolutions ago, it&#8217;s a tool like a wrench.\u00a0 A wrench can be used by an artisan in a shop or a worker on an assembly line.\u00a0 Similarly, Blockchain can be used by anyone to build anything.\u00a0 In June, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/visa-goes-live-with-blockchain-powered-business-payments-service\">Visa went live<\/a> with a blockchain powered payments system.<\/p>\n<p>Blockchain can also be viewed in terms of free operating systems, such as Linux and BSD, a variation of Unix, both of which have versions ensconced in the corporate world.\u00a0 Linux powers most big servers, while a fork of BSD was developed by Apple.\u00a0 Many versions of Linux are still free, but Red Hat made a name for itself supporting Linux for businesses before it was bought by IBM in July.<\/p>\n<p>This chain of events is not only open source material being used by the corporate world.\u00a0 Sometimes corporations release open material.\u00a0 Google has a<a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.google.com\/projects\/explore\/featured\"> page with many projects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Blockchain&#8217;s progress is more of an explosion in all directions than a definite trajectory.\u00a0 Although it&#8217;s been 11 years since the initial paper was published, we&#8217;re still at the beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of what we have written about concerns new peer-to-peer paradigms, which are inspired by blockchain and BTC (Bitcoin).\u00a0 If financial networks can be peer-to-peer, what about other things?\u00a0\u00a0 Now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,44,43],"tags":[51,9,46,50,48,49,47,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-41132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blockchain","7":"category-corporate-environments","8":"category-operating-systems","9":"tag-apple","10":"tag-blockchain","11":"tag-bsd","12":"tag-google","13":"tag-industrial-revolution","14":"tag-peer-to-peer","15":"tag-unix","16":"tag-visa","17":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45138,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41132\/revisions\/45138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}