Q1/ Research this technology: · Blockchain Who are the leaders in the industry? What products do they offer? What are the major features of the products? One page APA format Double spaced Q2/ Use an...

ANSWER TO QUESTION 1:
The leaders of the blockchain concept are as follows:
(i) CEO – Peter Smith
(ii) Co-founder - Nicolas Cary
(iii) CFO - Macrina kgil
(iv) VP data science – Peter Wilson.
(v) Owner – Satoshi Nakamoto
Blockchains are comprised of blocks in which various data or information are stored. For instance – If we take an example of a bitcoin it contains all the details about the sender, the receiver and also the number of bitcoins that are transferred. (Crosby, M., Pattanayak, P., Verma, S., & Kalyanaraman, V. (2016))
Products that are being offered – Public related blockchains such as Ethereum and bitcoin
Private blockchains such as R3 Corda and Hyperledger
Hybrid blockchains such as Dragon chain
Characteristics of public blockchains – These blockchains are designed in such a way that they are decentralized and no individual has the control or record on the transactions that are being occurred. (Chatterjee, R., & Chatterjee, R. (2017, October))
Characteristics of private blockchains – There are many enterprises who want to share and collaborate data and also on the other hand do not want to allow their confidential and sensitive data to be displayed on a public blockchain. (Kiviat, T. I. (2015))
Characteristics of hybrid blockchains – This kind of platform of blockchains which are hybrid in nature is possible only with an interchain capability which is patented and which also allows to connect easily with the protocol addresses of the other blockchains which results in allowing a network of blockchains which are...