Author: hperretta

MIT Identity Project

Today’s interesting Blockchain article is a blog post at MIT – announcing a prototype to build a blockchain based approach to an individual’s identity – under the control of the individual.  The interesting thought in the blog post is the fact that up until recently – you proved your identity by SHOWING UP somewhere.  But with the explosion in online transactions the ‘physical you’ is removed from the ‘you’ attesting to your identity online.

The second interesting Blockchain article today is this 30 minute video on “Blockchain and us“.  I’ll try to give it a view and summarize later this week.

Yours truly, Captain Blocktonite

Blockchain Industry Verticals

I started tracking potential applications of blockchain technology in August, 2016.  I now have articles and/or documents on blockchain use in 57 application areas (see table below).  This doesn’t count the fact that I have 32 sub-categories in the area of Finance and 18 areas within Healthcare.

Industry Vertical Date Indexed:
Advertising – Marketing 4/4/2017
Agriculture and Food 4/4/2017
Artificial Intelligence 4/4/2017
Airlines 4/4/2017
Analytics 4/4/2017
Art 4/4/2017
Articles on Multiple Applications 4/4/2017
Asset Ownership 4/4/2017
Auctions 4/4/2017
Audit 4/4/2017
Autos and Smart Cars 4/4/2017
Commodoties 4/4/2017
CRM 4/4/2017
Crowdfunding 4/4/2017
Clubs 4/4/2017
Defense 4/4/2017
Document Mgt 4/4/2017
Education 4/4/2017
Email 4/4/2017
Employment-Recruitment 4/4/2017
Energy 4/4/2017
Environment 4/4/2017
FINANCE (32) 4.4.17 4/4/2017
Federal Gov Apps 4/4/2017
Gambling 4/4/2017
Gaming 4/4/2017
Gun Control 4/4/2017
HEALTHCARE (18) 4.4.17 4/4/2017
Hotel Reservations 4/4/2017
Human Resources 4/4/2017
Immigration 4/4/2017
Insurance 4/4/2017
Intellectual Property 4/4/2017
Internet of Things 4/4/2017
Journalism 4/4/2017
Lottery 4/4/2017
Loyalty 4/4/2017
Mining 4/4/2017
Music 4/4/2017
News and Journalism 4/4/2017
NotForProfit 4/4/2017
Person As A Service 4/4/2017
Public Sector 4/4/2017
Real Estate 4/4/2017
Referrals 4/4/2017
Rentals 4/4/2017
Retail 4/4/2017
Shipping and Logistics 4/4/2017
Social Networks 4/4/2017
Sports 4/4/2017
Supply Chain (includes Procurement) 4/4/2017
Telcos 4/4/2017
Third World 4/4/2017
Ticket Sales 4/4/2017
Tourism / Travel 4/4/2017
Voting 4/4/2017

Blockchain Companies

Blocktonite started keeping track of companies that were meaningfully engaged with blockchain in the summer of 2016. By 4/3/17 we were up to 391 companies. As of 1/15/2018, that number is 770.

Some of these are huge multinationals (IBM, Microsoft, SAP, large banks like BNP Paribas), some are consulting companies, some are law firms – but most are start-ups.