Ethereum & Bitcoin's Blockchains are around a cryptocurrency.
The cryptocurrency is used for Proof of Work and has many other
purposes. We like cryptocurrencies, but the reason why so many businesses haven't
adopted the blockchain yet is because of crypto rapid changes in volume & value.
Remember
Steam dropping Bitcoin payments?
What about paying $0.50 in Ethereum fees every time I want to write something on the Blockchain? It's not something very attractive, isn't it?
Something I found out today is that 2 years ago, IBM offers "blockchain as a service" through something called
"Hyperledger". The article containing the information is
here while the official hyperledger open source project can be accessed on
hyperledger.org.
I recommend you to take a look at Hyperledger Composer and Hyperledger Fabric.
Hyperledger Composer is a set of collaboration tools for building blockchain business networks that make it simple and fast for business owners and developers to create smart contracts and blockchain applications to solve business problems.
Hyperledger Fabric is a blockchain framework implementation and one of the Hyperledger projects hosted by The Linux Foundation. Intended as a foundation for developing applications or solutions with a modular architecture, Hyperledger Fabric allows components, such as consensus and membership services, to be plug-and-play.
Alibaba already offers a solution to integrate Hyperledger on
Alibaba Cloud. This says something about China, if you know what I mean!
The supporting members of Hyperledger include VERY BIG NAMES, such as:
-Airbus
-American Express
-Cisco
-Intel
-JP Morgan
-BBVA
-Fedex
-China Systems
-Huawei
-Lenovo
-Samsung
-Redhat
And many many other big names.
Are these big organisations teaming up to put an end to the cryptocurrency Blockchains? Only time will tell
I recommend researching it and, if you can truly understand the whitepaper of these projects then explain it
to us as well. The concepts are more complex than in normal blockchains. I also don't understand whether
Hyperledger is fully decentralized (no use of server) or it still makes use of servers. While doing my online
research I only found confused opinions, some saying nodes do not need a central server while others
claiming that THEY DO need a REST server (representation state transfer)