Now that you grasp the general and technical concepts of a blockchain, let's understand the fundamental problem blockchain tries to solve and how it came to us. Adopting a social and economic approach to understand blockchain can be very helpful to recognize projects that have a solid foundation and identify business opportunities.
With new technologies such as blockchain, we can imagine the next Uber relying on a distributed and decentralized infrastructure, where full remuneration would go to drivers and small fees retrieved to run the blockchain and reward the nodes empowering the network. In fact, that is what is already developing Eva, a blockchain-based Uber-like startup that has truly decentralized how drivers and customers interact to provide car-sharing services. But the case of Uber is just the tip of the iceberg...
