Weaponizing Blockchain -- Vast Potential, but Projects Are Kept Secret

"Emerging technologies such as blockchain have the potential to define the war industry over the coming decades," former NATO Secretary General Rasmussen tells Cointelegraph. When Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said that blockchain and artificial intelligence would "revolutionize war," as Cointelegraph reported on Nov. 4, did he take things a bit too far? Jet engines have revolutionized warfare, and so have missiles and nuclear weapons -- but shared digital ledgers? Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, for one, told Cointelegraph that he agrees with India's minister when he was asked about blockchain's possible military uses: Digital technologies have been transforming warfare since the 1990's so emerging technologies such as blockchain have the potential to define the war industry over the coming decades. Data and data sharing will be critical for warfare in the future, particularly with the development of artificial intelligence." "Sharing data is fundamentally about transactions.