analyse the Distributed Ledger technologies in general and the Blockchain in particular at an educational level.
The Blockchain technology exploits the characteristics of a computer network of peer-to-peer nodes for the distributed management of a register containing data and information, in a unique and secure way, using a shared method that does not require a central entity for control and verification.
This new approach completely revolutionizes the current system with which, for example, companies exchange goods.
In fact, each maintains its own register of assets, while information on transactions is exchanged with each other.
Instead, the Blockchain allows using a single shared register, formed by a ‘Chain of Blocks’, where transactions are stored, secure, decentralized and modified with everyone’s consent.
In the financial sector, this technology potentially makes it possible to do without banks, notaries, financial institutions and so on.
