Based on previous interest on Bitcoin, I was suspicious of "Blockchain" as vendor marketing bandwagon-ism and/or finance industry panic.
But I recently watched this short Ted talk on "Blockchain", which I initially thought would be just fluff. Some of the ideas near the end lead me to think that there might be some there there. https://www.ted.com/talks/don_tapscott_how_the_blockchain_is_changing_money_and_business Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS> I'm still not clear on why a central "blockchain" server (internal to an enterprise) doesn't leave behind the central benefit of a widely-witnessed, open peer network of trust. I would assume that vendors are hoping to sell huge blockchain servers to each enterprise in a consortium (not that there is anything wrong with that if it provides value :-) On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 1:10 AM, Timothy Sipples <sipp...@sg.ibm.com> wrote: > If you'd like to start using Hyperledger Blockchain technology on your IBM > z System or LinuxONE machine, here's a great article explaining how: > > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/cloud/library/ > cl-ibm-blockchain-101-quick-start-guide-for-developers- > bluemix-trs/index.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > -------------------------------------------- > Timothy Sipples > IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA > E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
