Summary

Throughout this chapter, we've underlined that identifying and understanding the business problem is the key to solving it because it's the best starting point on which to build a successful solution. We showed that, sometimes, blockchain was not appropriate because the solution didn't involve criteria that was mandatory when choosing blockchain, such as the need to store information or the alignment of participants' interests. But when blockchain stands as a suitable solution, many diverse assessments, requirements, and topics must be addressed. Among them is the return on investment, the regulatory constraints, or the acceptance level of the teams to change. Besides these open points, we tried to answer a difficult but necessary question regarding the cost of a blockchain, which, in the end, can be considered a regular IT project including specific...