The hype around the blockchain is becoming deafening.
Just this week, both Westpac and the Commonwealth Bank have run sessions on the blockchain during the Sydney leg of an international series of conferences on the technology’s potential.
Bitcoin was the genesis of the blockchain. The cryptocurrency uses the technology essentially as a distributed ledger for transactions.
However, around two years ago, there started to appear a number of companies that were working on blockchain-based applications separate from Bitcoin.
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/590571/who-blocking-blockchain/
Topic: [2015-12-11] computerworld.com.au : Who’s blocking the blockchain? (Read 286 times)
December 10, 2015, 07:54:13 PM
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