Because many
new blockchain efforts are still in the pilot stages, some lawyers might have been asked to give advice about those pilot projects to their clients.
Brown went to great lengths in the post to laud bitcoin's architecture in statements that color recent
permissioned blockchain efforts as still striving to solve a «business problem» in the way that he argues the bitcoin blockchain already does.
The Linux Foundation - led Hyperledger project has announced it now has 100 institutional members backing the open -
source blockchain effort.
The announcement follows seven months after Samsung unveiled Nexledger — an enterprise - grade blockchain platform hosted in the cloud — that targeted
consortia blockchain efforts.
The Linux Foundation -
led blockchain effort added 10 new members to its network today, bringing its total number of backers to...
Falcon, which launched last year, is one of the institution's more notable
public blockchain efforts, aiming as it does to help decentralize the bitcoin network.
The trading system grew out of the
Medici blockchain effort within online retail giant Overstock, an initiative that dates back to 2014 and is aimed at creating a wholly new kind of trading environment based on a blockchain.
Similarly, there is potential for
collaborative blockchain efforts to entrench themselves in key inter-industry markets, such as healthcare and insurance, trading and AI marketplaces, or cloud computing and software.
Of the $ 160m invested in Q1, only 16 % went to startups providing services specifically for the bitcoin blockchain, with 84 % invested in startups working on
permissioned blockchain efforts or both permissioned and public projects.
Wilcox met Amber Baldet, who now leads JPMorgan's
blockchain efforts, after she gave a talk on mental health at the hacker conference Defcon in 2013.
Bob Craig of law firm BakerHostetler is leading a group of law firms and technology companies in
the blockchain effort with the recent formation of the Global Legal Blockchain Consortium.
In a research report released Wednesday, Kerrisdale Capital alleges Kodak's
blockchain effort isn't genuine, going so far as to call it «a last - ditch stock promotion gambit for a company hurtling towards bankruptcy.»
Dubai is set to play host to a conference on digital currencies months after
a blockchain effort in the country was first unveiled.
Quoted in the MIT Technology Review, Marley Gray, who leads Microsoft's
blockchain efforts, said, «We see a huge opportunity here.