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How blockchain will disrupt traditional computing
04/10/2017
[Blockchain-based
technologies](https://techbeacon.com/tags/blockchain){.markup--anchor
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rel="noopener" target="_blank"} have moved away from just supporting
cryptocurrencies. One hot area for IT Ops is smart contracts, which let
you store, verify, and execute code on a blockchain. And multiple
projects now under way promise to replace traditional elements of the
compute stack, from processing to storage to communications, with this
approach.
### Blockchain is already...