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Let's dive into the world of blockchain, my first look at current economic trends on this site, called

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On this site, you can find out the job opportunities in the US and salaries.

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For example, let's run a search with blockchain and then for our location, let's set it to San Francisco.

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When we search, we get our results.

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And here it says Coinbase.

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Coinbase is a very famous company, and we see job listings here.

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And for this, we got four hundred and five results.

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Scrolling down, we see Facebook and Ripple.

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You see that many companies are posting their job openings on the site.

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Glassdoor has a blog article, and this particular one focuses on blockchain.

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The main point of this article is that currently there is a rising demand for those familiar with blockchain.

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When we scroll down to the bottom, we see a bar graph.

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The green represents the job openings related to blockchain, and we see that there is a growing demand

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for this technology.

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The orange line represents the bitcoin price, and you see here that the price suddenly jumped up at

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this point.

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Since then, the bitcoin price has gradually been going down, but we see that the related job openings

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are still increasing.

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Now that you understand that, there's a high demand for those with skills.

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Let's look at location.

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Coming in at first place is New York.

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New York has many financial service positions, so that's why twenty four percent of the job openings

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are in New York City.

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Silicon Valley is a location that's in between San Francisco and San Jose.

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If we add the percent shares of San Francisco and San Jose, we get 27 percent.

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So we can say that it does make up a big portion of the blockchain job openings in fifth place.

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We have Seattle, which is where Microsoft's headquarters are located.

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Microsoft also provides a platform for blockchain, so that's why they have about four percent of the

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shares that's growing further down.

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We see information on the top five international metrics for blockchain job openings.

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Scrolling further down now, there's information on the top 15 occupations for open blockchain jobs

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and coming in at first place.

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A software engineer included in this first.

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We also have product manager and frontend engineer, but there is a greater demand for software engineers.

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And let's see which companies are hiring for positions we see here as coming in second.

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IBM.

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IBM also has their own blockchain platform, and we see that their share of blockchain related jobs

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is 12 percent.

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Coinbase is coming in as third, which is not surprising since Coinbase is a cryptocurrency exchange

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platform, so they indeed do need professionals with blockchain knowledge.

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Looking down the list, we see Oracle, Accenture, J.P. Morgan, a financial institution, and KPMG.

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One of the big four accounting firms.

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There are job postings from these kind of big firms where professionals with blockchain technology are

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in high demand.

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Let's look at another website.

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This article from Forbes.

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There's a list of 50 largest public companies that are focusing on blockchain technology.

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We see American Express coming in at 50th place.

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We have Mizuho, a Japanese bank, here.

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Let's look at some of the other bigger companies coming in 41st place.

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We have Facebook.

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Facebook announced Libra cryptocurrency in 2018, and since then it's caught people's attention and

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we also have Google and Apple at eighth place.

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We also have Amazon coming in at 30 second place.

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Amazon provides its own cryptocurrency platform.

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We will be looking at each one of the companies listed here, but you see we have companies like Microsoft

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and Intel and to see that many big companies are involved in blockchain technology.

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Let's look at some of the companies in detail.

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First, we have Facebook.

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Facebook announced its Libra cryptocurrency and has caught people's attention from all over the world

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in the US, too.

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This is a popular topic and has even been discussed on Bloomberg, as you see here.

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Facebook does post many job positions related to blockchain, and this high demand for professionals

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with blockchain knowledge will probably continue.

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Now let's look at Amazon.

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Amazon also provides a platform for blockchain through their Amazon Web Services, a.k.a. eight of us.

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This Amazon managed blockchain is a fully managed service that makes it easy to join public networks

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or create private networks.

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Next, let's look at Microsoft.

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This is Microsoft's website, and we have blockchain here.

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Microsoft provides a platform called as zero, and the same can be said about IBM.

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IBM also provides blockchain platform based three companies Amazon.

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Microsoft and IBM.

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They're all big companies, and they all provide blockchain platforms.

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This data alone may be strong evidence that companies utilizing blockchain infrastructure will continue

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to increase.

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So please remember that the big companies are focusing their business involving blockchain technology.

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Here's another food for thought.

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This is a blog article on Google Cloud, but it mentions how Google provides a tool for searching with

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Ethereum network.

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It seems like Google will also continue to be actively involved in blockchain technology.

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Now, let's look at Apple.

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This article mentions how Apple submitted a SEC filing that describes their commitment both internally

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and externally to ethically sourced materials for as popular products.

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And how are they going to do that?

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It's been reported that Apple drafted guidelines based upon the principles and definitions for the application

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of blockchain technology.

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In the article, it says, When I Train imagines that there's a possibility that Apple will begin to

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offer some form of blockchain related service.

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To summarize my point with all these articles, we see that these big industries in the Silicon Valley

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have interest and aren't involved in blockchain technology.

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Their continued interest in this technology then results in a continued demand for engineers with this

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knowledge.

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Now on to our next topic.

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I previously introduced Glassdoor, and this is a list of 25 highest paying companies in America.

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Let's look at this list in detail now.

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Ranking in at first and second are consulting firms.

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Then coming in at third, we have the word, which is that virtualisation and cloud computing software

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provider, then we have Splunk coming in at fourth, which is a company that develops software for big

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data.

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Now let's scroll down a little further and coming in at 6:00, we have Google.

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Then we have Facebook coming in as seventh, then and here in eighth place.

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Nvidia is doing well, too, with its sales of its crypto mining cards growing then down below.

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We have McKinsey, another consulting firm then and attend.

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We have Amazon.

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We also have Juniper, LinkedIn and Salesforce.

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As you see here, there are many companies included in this list that are located in the Silicon Valley.

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And let's see, we also have Microsoft down below here as 19th place.

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Most of these companies are consulting firms or I.T. companies.

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About 80 percent of the companies listed here are I.T. companies.

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Now that we've discussed this list.

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Let's move on to our next slide.

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If you know some of the history behind the IT industry, you may already know this.

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So if you do feel free to skip this section, but before companies that developed networking products

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were growing at a fast pace.

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Some example of these companies would be Juniper, Cisco and F5.

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These three companies were mentioned in the list.

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We just went over.

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So the software networking sector expanded, and that's the focus becomes on current trends, which

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is network virtualization represented by companies like VMware.

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Then we have the growth of snus.

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For example, Facebook.

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Then came cloud computing services with Amazon, Salesforce and Google.

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We also have big data represented by Splunk.

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These fields have seen a tremendous amount of growth and popularity, and that's why these companies

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are able to offer high paying positions.

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And now what about the future?

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What will the future trend look like?

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We have eight AI Rocket Robot and fintech related industries catching the public interest rocket and

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are the fields that enable Musk is practically developing.

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Masayoshi Son, a billionaire and CEO of SoftBank in Japan, along with Google, are buying robotics

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firms.

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The fintech market is gaining attention as well, and venture capital firms see the fintech market as

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an investing opportunity, for example, and the idea has gained popularity due to its development of

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the crypto mining cards.

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We see from these companies that the more demand there is in a particular field, the higher the pay.

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Let me include the rankings of these companies on the slide we see by looking at this historical trend

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in the field that the market that is gaining popularity in our current economy is able to offer positions

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with higher paid network related companies here come in as 11th and 23rd, and we can say that this

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market's popularity has calmed down.

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Next, we have snus and cloud, which are markets with pace that are higher than the network field.

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The same can be said for the virtual machine and big data market.

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Virtualization software gained a tremendous amount of attention and popularity not long ago, and the

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same can be said for the big data field.

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That means that the company's sales are going up, and if companies IPO, then the company gains even

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more popularity both domestic and internationally.

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As you can see, there is a direct relationship between the popularity of the particular field and the

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amount of pay.

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My main point with this is these companies that are currently gaining popularity will continue to gain

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more popularity if you're able to figure this out and study the technology in these fields.

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You may become an engineer that will have the knowledge required in these fields.

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I'm not saying that pay is everything because it isn't, but it would be nice to study and gain the

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knowledge that employers are seeking for and regarding this fintech.

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Fintech does have some ties with blockchain.

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Down below, I'm going to add on blockchain and include the companies that are often referred to as

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GAFA, which stands for Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon.

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We see that these companies are focusing on blockchain technology.

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Facebook has already announced its own cryptocurrency, called Libra as an engineer, understanding

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and knowing blockchain technology is important for stepping up your career to the next level.

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It's said that the wealthy companies and individuals create the trends in our economy.

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So whether it's A.I., rocket, robot or fintech, big companies in the Silicon Valley, which represent

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the IT industry in the US, will gain international attention and will become the world trend.

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What's popular in the US?

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Because popular worldwide and this has been proven many times.

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If you look back in history, the less popular technology is blockchain, and I think understanding

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this technology is going to open up many opportunities for your career.

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We understand that blockchain is gaining popularity, so let's get further into blockchain.

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Can blockchain technology only be used for cryptocurrency?

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This might be a question you might have.

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It can actually be used for so many different purposes and to benefit many industries.

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For example, it can be used in the real estate sector.

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There's also IoT.

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Ride sharing and also gaming.

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Explaining it was just how blockchain can help many industries will really give you a clear picture.

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And the best way is to write and run the codes to get a real understanding of how blockchain technology

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can be applied to other sectors.

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PowerPoint slides with a general overview of how blockchain technology can be used in a variety of sectors.

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Is it really going to sink in?

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So here I will be going into details about each sector, but I'm just going to summarize by saying that

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blockchain technology has the potential to be applied in many different platforms, even professionals

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who aren't engineers.

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For example, let's say you're a business developer.

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By taking this course, you can get a better understanding of blockchain technology and to grasp a better

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image of how blockchain technology can be applied in different industries.

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So let's move on.

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Next, we have the most popular programming languages used in blockchain development.

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There are many programming languages introduced here.

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For example, we have we have Ethereum solidity.

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We also have C-sharp C++, Askew, El Ruby, JavaScript, Java, Python and Go.

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If we look down below at new development is done using Go and some parts using Python, JavaScript C

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Different languages may be used.

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using a different programming language.

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This time, we're going to be focusing on Go Girl was developed by Google and is popular in the Silicon

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Valley, and this course will focus on GO.

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Now, let's move on to our next web page.

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This is a list of programming languages by popularity.

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Coming in at first place is Python.

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This red line here is Python, and in recent years, artificial intelligence, A.I. and syntax are gaining

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popularity, and Python is one of the leading languages that are used for the development for these.

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So that's why Python is gaining popularity.

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Here we have Java, which is slowly decreasing in popularity over time, and the same can be said for

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Now, let's look at go.

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It was developed in 2015 by Google, so it's still quite recent.

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But you see that it's increasing popularity at quite a rapid pace, and Silicon Valley many companies

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have started to use GO.

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So I'm predicting that gold will become even more widespread and popular now that they've gone over,

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why goes important and my reason as to why this course will be taught using gold?

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Let's get into the fun part and start looking at blockchain development from scratch using Go.