Blockchain as Best Practice: The Benefits of the Criminal Justice System Implementing Blockchain Technology
By Merritt Francis
Blockchain technology was created in 2008 by an anonymous group or person, the creator(s) of Bitcoin, “Satoshi Nakamoto.”[1] Blockchain is a set of technologies that creates an encrypted, distributed/ decentralized ledger. A “decentralized” ledger means there is no central authority. Rather, the information is shared and distributed to thousands of computers (“nodes”) on a peer-to-peer network, which are located around the world.[2]