The Hultian Spring 2017 | Page 22

How do you bring disruptive innovation in Silicon Valley, where disruption is the norm? That’s right… You change the rules. Blockchain is an emerging technology that shows the potential to do exactly that, and as an information and digital technology enthusiast, I’ve been waiting for something like this for a while now. I would briefly describe Blockchain as a distributed system of networked synchronized databases that can reliably secure transactions between peers over a trusted network without the need of an intermediary third party. This happens by recording the transacted assets, and the transactions to, getting one step closer to a truly open market, allowing for a whole new way to think about