Director of ICT, Spiritan University Nneochi, Abia State, Nigeria.

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Chioma Chigozie-Okwum, indigenous to Nigeria, is a cybersecurity researcher, educator, content creator and advocate. Chioma is a serial tech enthusiast and is passionate about cyber safety awareness propagation and that has earned her many national and international recognitions. She is pursuing cyber-psychology and human factor security frontiers.

BEYOND THE FINANCIALS; AN EXPOSÉ ON THE NON-FINANCIAL AFFORDANCES OF BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY

Abstract:

Blockchain Technology have been over the years misconstrued to serve only financial purposes especially in cryptocurrency and decentralized Finance. This is hugely because one of the earliest uses of Blockchain Technology is in cryptocurrency technology. This paper seeks to explore other numerous non-financial affordances of Blockchain Technology in a bid to draw more attention to those underused but vital uses of this wonder technology.