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Thursday, May 24, 2018

Blockchains Talking to Each Other

For backups, and for other housekeeping and updating functions?  For assembling contracts among component pieces?  Smart Contracts are mentioned as a form of Blockchain architecture being enabled.

How to get blockchains to talk to each other
If blockchains are really going to give us the internet of money, they’ll need to work together.
by Mike Orcutt in Technology Review ... 

".... Hardjono and two colleagues at MIT argue in a new paper (PDF) that today’s blockchain developers should borrow a concept from the internet protocol suite called the datagram, which is a common unit of information that can move across different networks. “Every network that sees it knows how to parse it and knows how to forward it,” Hardjono says. “What is the datagram equivalent for blockchain systems?” .... " 

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