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What’s the big IT story of 2016 going to be? All fingers seem to be pointing at Bitcoin, along with the blockchain architecture that empowers its distributed nature. There are two reasons why Bitcoin ...

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...