Blockchain technology was perhaps the most controversial topic at last week’s RSA Conference in San Francisco. It’s fitting, because distributed ledger technologies are also hotly debated in conversations about enterprise technology. For most organizations, the idea of blockchain is suspended somewhere between hype and disappointment, realism and naked hope. The perspective all depends on who you’re talking to.
Twitter is a fairly good barometer to gauge how these competing viewpoints played out at RSAC 2018. Some participants in the discussion asserted that blockchain is the key to achieving General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance, while others questioned the technology’s scalability. Some RSAC attendees were unfamiliar with blockchain altogether.
