©2015 Bloomberg News NVTLDV6JTSEF (Bloomberg) — In the wake of Thursday’s mass shooting in Oregon, a familiar political pattern has emerged, with Democrats advocating for tougher gun laws and Republicans arguing that such legislation won’t make a difference in curbing firearm deaths. To make the latter point, two of the current GOP presidential candidates, New

Blockchain technology appeared on the market in 2009 in the form of the first cryptocurrency, bitcoin, and since then has almost completely developed in the form of various kinds of DeFi solutions. Even though decentralized platforms based on a distributed ledger have existed for twelve years, only recently products based on them have begun to appear in other areas, including trade, data storage, logistics, games, medicine, etc. Our article is devoted to such non-financial blockchain-based applications, how they differ from the usual centralized solutions, and the benefits they can bring to users.