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Why should you care about blockchain?

Find out why you should care about blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), and what to expect in this free four-week course from UCL CBT.

Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) have received a great deal of media attention since their creation a little over a decade ago. Despite this, there is still a great deal of confusion and misunderstanding about what exactly blockchain and DLT are and how they can be applied.

Over the next four weeks, this course aims to help you gain an introduction to the main concepts behind blockchain and DLT and how they can be applied to business. You’ll gain a foundational understanding of the potential of this new emerging technology and how it can transform information coordination systems across the world.

In this video you’ll meet Thiago Earp who’ll be guiding your journey through this course. He’ll talk about how important the concept of trust is in our world, and how we can sometimes take that for granted. Blockchain is a technology that can help to create trust between users.

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