Indopedia All Things Marijuana
Blockchain will be the Next Big Thing. The technology behind the Bitcoin cryptocurrency is still in its infancy, like the start of the Internet in the early 1990s, but it has huge potential. Blockchain is also opening up new horizons for the Dutch cannabis industry.
If you see hundreds of young people sitting in a poorly lit industrial building, staring at their laptop screens until late at night, and living off coffee and noodles from paper cups, then it is difficult for an onlooker to evaluate how relevant this image really is. “Blockchaingers”, as these young designers, software developers and database experts call themselves, are not meeting up to enjoy themselves, they are meeting up in order to change the world.
700 of them came together in April 2018 for the second of the biggest blockchain hackathon in the world. For four days and four nights, the Dutch city of Groningen became the global epicentre of blockchain prototyping. Over 60 teams, together with their future customers, were developing prototype solutions…
