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Thousands of blockchains and blockchain applications exist today. The whole world has become obsessed with the ideas of moving money faster, incorporating and governing in a distributed network, and building secure applications and hardware.

You can see many of these public blockchains by going to a cryptocurrency exchange, which we explore further in Book 5, Chapter 3.

Figure 1-3 shows the altcoin exchange for Poloniex (https://poloniex.com), a cryptocurrency trading platform.

Blockchains are moving beyond the trading value market and are being incorporated into all sorts of industries. Blockchains add a new trust layer that now makes working online secure in a way that was not possible beforehand.

FIGURE 1-3: The altcoin exchange platform.