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This conflicts with the GDPR right to be forgotten. Every node has the entire blockchain and thus all the data. This might cause issues with legislation. For example requirements to have data contained within the same country. This becomes more of a challenge when running blockchain in a cloud environment. In Europe with many relatively small countries, this will be more of an issue compared to for example the US, Russia or China.

It is really dependent on the types of services the blockchain cloud provider offers and how much they charge for it. It could be similar to using a bank, requiring you to pay per transaction. In that case, why not stick to a bank? Can you enforce the nodes being located in your country? If you need to fix a broken smart contract, will there be a service request and will the cloud provider fork and replay transactions for you? Will you get access to the blockchain itself?

Will they provide a transaction manager? Will they guarantee a max transactions per second in their SLA? A lot of questions for which there are probably answers which differ per provider and based on those answers, you can make a cost calculation if it will be worthwhile to use the cloud blockchain.

In the cloud, the challenges with being GDPR compliant are even greater especially for European governments and banks. If you have lost your private key or lost access to your wallet more business friendly name of a keystore containing your private key, you might have lost your assets on the blockchain. Luckily a blockchain is secure and there is no easy way to fix this.

If you have a wallet which is being managed by a 3rd party, they might be able to help you with recovering it. Those 3rd parties however are hacked quite often a lot of value can be obtained from such a hack. See for example here , here and here. A transaction is put on the blockchain. The transaction is usually verified by several several nodes before it is distributed to all nodes and becomes part of the chain. Verification can fail or might take a while.

This can be hours on some public blockchains. It could be the transaction has been caught up by another transaction with higher priority. In the software which is integrated with a blockchain solution, you have to keep track on the state of transactions since you want to know what the up to date value is of your assets.

This causes an integration challenge and you might have to introduce a product which has a blockchain transaction manager feature. Blockchain requires large amounts of resources when compared to classic integration. Everyone node has the complete chain so everyone can verify transactions. This is a good thing since if a single node is hacked, other nodes will overrule the transactions which this node offers to the chain if they are invalid in whatever way.

However this means every transaction is distributed to all nodes network traffic and every verification is performed on every node CPU. Also when the chain becomes larger, every node has a complete copy and thus diskspace is not used efficiently. See for example some research on blockchain electricity usage here. Another example is that a single Bitcoin transaction 4 can be processed per second requires the same amount of electricity as VISA transactions while VISA can do transactions per second, see here.

Of course there is discussion on the validity of such a comparison and in the future this will most likely change. Also an indication blockchains are still in the early stages. Blockchain is relatively new and new implementations appear almost daily. There is little standardisation. Even with this many partially open source products, it seems every implementation requires a new product.

It is likely that eventually there will be a most common used product which will hopefully be the one that works best not like what happened in the videotape format wars. If you choose a product now to implement, you will most likely not choose the product which will be most popular in a couple of years time.

This will probably mean you would have to start migration projects. What is there for blockchain? Every product uses its own protocol. Only this time there are hundreds of Microsofts. Of course this will be fixed, but how? By forking the public blockchains? By introducing new blockchains? As indicated before, updating the technology of a blockchain can be challenging. You can jump on the wagon and hope the ride will not carry you off a cliff.

I would be a bit careful when implementing blockchain. I would not expect in an enterprise to quickly get something to production which will actually be worthwhile in use without requiring a lot of expertise to work on all the challenges. Companies will gain experience with this technology and architectures which mitigate these challenges will undoubtedly emerge.

A new development could also be that the base assumptions the blockchain technology is based on, are not practical in enterprise environments and another technology arises to fill the gap. To be honest, a solid alternative which covers all the use cases of blockchain is not easily found. This might also help in explaining the popularity of blockchain. Although there are many technical challenges, in absence of a solid alternative, where should you go to implement those use cases?

This however often requires manual interventions at least in my experience and there are security considerations. SWIFT has been hacked for example. The idea of having a consortium which guards a shared truth has been around for quite a while in the B2B world.

The technology such a consortium uses can just as well for example be a collection of Kafka topics. It would require a per use-case study if all the blockchain features can be implemented. It will perform way better, the order of messages like in a blockchain can be guaranteed, a message put on a topic is immutable and you can use compacted topics to get the latest value of something. Kafka has been designed to be easily scalable. It might be worthwhile to explore if you can create a blockchain like setup which does not have its drawbacks.

Some blockchain issues can be mitigated by using so-called off-chain transactions and code. Sidechains are extensions to existing blockchains, enhancing their privacy and functionality by adding features like smart contracts and confidential transactions.

Currently however in my opinion, it is still immature. It lacks standardization, performance and the immutable nature of a blockchain might be difficult to deal with in an actual enterprise. Instances can connect to each other. Different transactions will be validated by different authorities depending on the assets being exchanged. Every asset issuer has full control on the transactions relevant to that asset. More efficient Openchain is more efficient than systems that use Proof of Work: Openchain uses a client-server architecture which is more efficient and reliable than a peer-to-peer architecture.

There is no miner, transactions are directly validated by the asset administrator. Since there is no miner, transactions are instant and free. Modular design Validators validate and store transactions.

Observers receive a read-only copy of the ledger. They do their own validation of the ledger and store their own copy. Clients and wallets connect to validators to submit digitally signed transactions. Smart contracts are independent actors receiving and sending transactions according to arbitrary business logic. Gateways create 2-way pegging between two Openchain instances. They can also peg the Openchain instance as a sidechain of the Bitcoin Blockchain. What are the use cases? Openchain is a generic register of ownership.

It can be modelled to work with an immense number of use cases: Securities like stocks and bonds, commodities like gold and oil, currencies like the Dollar or even Bitcoin.

Titles of ownership like land titles, music or software licensing. Gift cards and loyalty points. Try the wallet Because an Openchain node exposes a simple HTTP endpoint, it's easy to build a wallet or client application, but we are providing a basic open source wallet for testing purposes.

Try the basic Openchain wallet. Connect to the development server provided by Coinprism, or see below to spin up your own server. Create your own server instance It only takes a few seconds to spin up a new instance of Openchain server. Create an instance, and use it to issue your own digital asset, and distribute it to people. Openchain is free and open source: