**2.3 Advantages and disadvantages of using Blockchain**

According to Ref. [11], Blockchain technology has been portrayed as a disruptive technology that provides unprecedented levels of security, which is required and wanted not only by the IT and finance industries but by all industries in general, making it a very adaptable technology.

Despite its many advantages, Blockchain technology is far from flawless, and it has advantages and problems in its deployment, much like every revolutionary technology.

**Advantages:**


*Blockchain-Based Educational Certificates: A Proposal DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.109392*

