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About a quarter of respondents saw a lack of trust among users as the biggest barrier to overcome in blockchain adoption.

Blockchain uses cryptography to link records back to each other, creating a transactional data chain that is famed for being hard to hack and specifically secure.

Investment in the blockchain is finally getting some attention and investment; in 2018 blockchain plans to receive 3.9 billion in the capital. By 2022, investments are expected to reach 11.7 billion.

This post originally appeared on the blog of data firm Statista and is republished here with permission.