Blockchain Technology is the future of modern business, politics, distributed ledger, micro finance, social networking, gaming and many more....
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A decentralized data process enables secure transactions in a peer to peer network cutting the cost of financial transaction to 1/10, a more transparent voting system which is practically impossible to corrupt (already used for certain political votes in Ukraine and Russia)...The benefits of a decentralized social network are obvious...

Progress is achieved in the speed of light, even thou I inform my self everyday about the most important achievements of humanity. Let it be in technology, medicine, physics or science... It seems very hard to keep up with all the new information spilled out daily in a era where the whole worlds information is just one mouse click away it is very important to filter major events and make reasonable conclusions to accumulate a healthy profit. 

Living in such a time period it is very easy to be left behind by a rapidly evolving base of knowledge and daily achievements like quantum computers or artificial intelligence.

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List of companies using the Blockchain

-Pure Cryptocurrency:
Bitcoin
Litecoin
and many many more...

-Distributed Ledger, Microfinance systems:
Nem Xem http://nem.io
Ripple https://ripple.com

-Social Network
Steemit https://steemit.com
MUSE http://peertracks.com
LBRY Credits https://lbry.io

-Data Storage
Storjcoin X https://storj.io
Sia https://sia.tech

-Gaming
GameCredits https://onlinegames.credit
Bitcrystals http://bitcrystals.com
Voxels https://www.voxelus.com

All this coins can be found here: https://coinmarketcap.com