A business-driven blockchain evaluation flow chart

Blockchain flowchart excerpt

Yesterday, Rene Jan Veldwijk posted a blockchain decision flowchart he had previously used in a presentation.

As it deserves wider visibility and bridges nicely between the DHS/NIST blockchain flow chart and the data life-cycle, I decided to put it online (Rene Jan Veldwijk: “Kein Problem. Aber bitte mit Zitat”).

I find it great and I hope you enjoy it as well.

Added 2022-10-21: A (dutch) article by Rene Jan Veldwijk explaining the chart is online: «Blockchain debunked 4: Afrekenen met een leugen»

Blockchain ecosystem

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