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Blockchain vs Corruption

This evening, my Instagram story was full of updates from my friends in Indonesia. It was all about a guy named Setya Novanto, the head of People’s Representative Council (or also known in Indonesia as the DPR), has been suspected in a corruption case. What’s special about this guy, is that he faked his own car accident, when polices were looking to arrest him. That is why it was like echoing as a joke on my social media. However, corruption cases are pretty common in Indonesia, so Indonesian people are used to that. Due to my twitter assignment, I started learning about block chain a couple of weeks ago. Well, this might sound old-fashioned now, but really, this technology is going to be something special. Many tech-engineers predict that block chain is going to be as big as the launch of internet was a couple years ago. A block chain is a digital decentralised ledger that is used to track digital currencies such as bitcoin and all transactions of this currency around the wo...