{"id":208,"date":"2018-04-04T11:29:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T09:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.techlib.cz\/?p=208"},"modified":"2018-04-04T11:29:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T09:29:55","slug":"what-is-blockchain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.techlib.cz\/index.php\/2018\/04\/04\/what-is-blockchain\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Blockchain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new buzzword on the block, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/mar\/10\/blockchain-music-imogen-heap-provenance-finance-voting-amir-taaki\">blockchain<\/a>. Discussion has emerged regarding blockchain and its possible applicability to the next-generation of persistent document identifiers (PIDs; like ORCIDs, DOIs):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Blockchain is a technology for decentralized, self-regulating data which can be managed and organized in a revolutionary new way: open, permanent, verified and shared, without the need of a central authority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org\/2018\/04\/03\/everything-always-wanted-know-blockchain-afraid-ask\/\">Scholarly Kitchen<\/a> and in <a href=\"https:\/\/figshare.com\/articles\/The_bollockschain_and_other_PID_hallucinations\/5914312\/1\">this presentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new buzzword on the block, blockchain. Discussion has emerged regarding blockchain and its possible applicability to the next-generation of persistent document identifiers (PIDs; like ORCIDs, DOIs): Blockchain is a technology for decentralized, self-regulating data which can be managed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.techlib.cz\/index.php\/2018\/04\/04\/what-is-blockchain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.techlib.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.techlib.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.techlib.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.techlib.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.techlib.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.techlib.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/blog.techlib.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.techlib.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.techlib.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.techlib.cz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}