The buzzword of blockchain and cryptocurrency was humming as giants tech giants like Microsoft, IBM, AWS, Oracle and many, many more started testing the waters. Operational problems still persist with blockchain; from scalability, speed and cost, interoperability and the decentralized / centralized battle among the private and public chains. Square, the fintech payment company headed up by the affable Jack Dorsey has long had an interest in cryptocurrency. So, in terms of making a solution for the use of cryptocurrency in an operational sense, there needs to be other quick-fix solutions. Linking chainsIt could be argued that one of the big problems holding blockchain back from being globally operational is interoperability.

Source: Forbes January 29, 2020 10:30 UTC