Mainstream acceptance of blockchain is imminent – companies are securing important market share with the right blockchain roadmap strategy to secure their existence in the digitalization era. To do this, it is extremely important that the project team first understands the distributed nature of the network.

This is because the participants of a blockchain network can consequently not only be spatially separated, but also scattered all over the world. In this context, each participant is responsible for operating a full node, as well as maintaining a full copy of a ledger to update with new transactions.