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5 ways cryptocurrency benefits ecommerce

GetElastic

Bitcoin continues to influence the macroeconomy, and pretty much everybody believes (or wants to believe) that digital currency will bring about a bright future. Operations are controlled by smart contracts technology that allows users to exchange money and other values transparently without any services of the third parties.

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Are Blockchain and Bitcoin the same?

eCommerce Guider

This article will demonstrate how Blockchain is not Bitcoin, how Blockchain is a technology that has uses other than cryptocurrency, and why in fact Blockchain might even outlive Bitcoin. Once a new chain is added to the block, it’s encrypted using cryptography and can’t be changed, replicated or removed. The answer? It’s hard to say.