Cloud-based Blockchain: Hijacking The Idea Of Decentralization
By Othman Darwish BaaS or what is known as Blockchain-as-a-Service- is a cloud-based solution, that developed by companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, and IBM which dominating the industry of cloud computing. The model of BaaS provider is promoting and offering businesses to select between a diversity of blockchain platforms, and tackle the complexity of configuring, operating and maintaining the entire blockchain infrastructure. In this blog will opposing the rationality of adopting such a deployment model, and debating some fundamental and conflicting aspects of blockchain technology and BaaS deployment model. Microsoft and its dominant cloud platform Azure was the first software vendor to offer BaaS. Azure provides a variety of blockchain platforms, such as HyperLedger Fabric, Ethereum, Corda, SysCoin and many more. Such services that provide pre-built templates to build blockchain networks dragged businesses to go with BaaS proposal, to decrease their developme