January 26, 2018
Featured Education
Zero to Blockchain
Bob Dill | January 23, 2018 | https://goo.gl/gu8ZzF
Learn how to develop BlockChain solutions using HyperLedger Composer on HyperLedger Fabric Version 1.0+. This 15 chapter tutorial takes you from no experience to building a complete blockchain application.
Market Activity and Trends
Microsoft, Hyperledger, UN Join Blockchain Identity Initiative
Coin Desk | January 23, 2018 | https://goo.gl/zavnJq
Microsoft and Hyperledger have joined blockchain-based digital identity initiative, the ID2020 Alliance. This was announced yesterday at the WEF in Davos. The group is developing solutions with a focus on user’s direct ownership and control over their personal data using blockchain technology.
The group is working on efforts to allow a seamless authentication process for people and institutions. This is all to eliminate human trafficking and allow for the over 1.1 billion people globally who at present cannot prove their identity.
Blockchain and cryptocurrency may soon underpin cloud storage
Computer World | January 23, 2018 | https://goo.gl/QGfxzg
Blockchain technology is now being used to offer free file-sharing and decentralized storage. Start-ups, like FileZilla, are offering customers an alternative storage method, directly competing with similar cloud solutions. Initial issues that are arising with this offering are scaling the digital storage. However, this new way of file storage is poised to take on the likes of AWS and Dropbox.
China’s Banking Regulator Pushes Blockchain Adoption for Credit Market
Coin Desk | January 23, 2018 | https://goo.gl/Vj76Em
By cracking down on crypto mining earlier this month, China’s government made their discomfort with bitcoin clear. With blockchain, however, China’s interest has not wavered. On January 19, the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) released a paper discussing a variety of topics related to developing and regulating financial technologies.
This paper, as the title of the article suggests, discusses the immense potential of blockchain for China’s credit market; in short, blockchain could reduce the time and cost of making capital available. Perhaps equally important, however, are the CBRC’s concerns that regulations have not kept speed with emerging technologies, and they suggest that blockchain can help address some of these problems. For example, it’s possible that regulators will no longer just be recipients of the reports, but can instead be a part of the real-time process.
Despite their hesitations with cryptocurrencies, the Chinese government has shown a growing interest in leveraging blockchain technology, and the CBRC’s statements are yet another example of that.
Blockchain Education
IBM Blockchain Foundation Developer Course
We are excited to accounted the IBM Blockchain Learning site is now live, featuring a new IBM Blockchain Foundation Developer Course. Stay tuned for more courses and sessions coming in the next couple weeks!
IBM Blockchain Foundation Consulting Course
Continue to follow the IBM framework, please take this course building upon your consulting knowledge. Stay tuned for more courses and sessions coming in the next couple weeks!
Inside the Most Disruptive Technology Since the Internet
Blockchain is coming. Like the internet before it, this new shared digital infrastructure is set to transform the economy and revolutionize how you consume media, how you communicate online and even how you vote. So strap in with OZY, and let us catch you up on what it all means and then vault you ahead to the next big cryptotrends.
Blockchain @ IBM Storytelling Team
Blockchain Part I: Evaluate, Engineer, Execute
Pramod Achanta | August 24, 2017
Blockchain Part II: Engineering Transformation; Building out the Blueprint
Pramod Achanta | September 8, 2017
Blockchain Part III: Execution; Breathing Life into Blueprints
Pramod Achanta | September 15, 2017
Blockchain @ IBM Institute for Business Value
Blockchain for Digital Reinvention: Three lessons from Blockchain Explorers
Veena Pureswaran | IBV Global Research
Recently, the IBM Institute for Business Value conducted a global survey of nearly 3,000 CxOs from over 20 industries to understand their strategy for leveraging blockchain as an enabler of Digital Reinvention. Through observing and interacting with these blockchain explorers we’ve identified three lessons learned that further their pursuit of blockchain.
Driving changes
Automation, digital commerce and the Internet of Things are redefining vehicle operation, usage and ownership models.
Advancing blockchain
In this IBM Institute for Business Value Expert Insights report, we share some lessons from a successful, ongoing blockchain initiative between CLS and IBM.
An expanding market
Central banks and financial system regulators around the world are asking themselves how blockchain is going to change their technology underpinnings and those of the commercial banks and financial institutions they regulate. These executives are especially concerned about the non-functional requirements for blockchain.
Tuned to trust
The current model for managing identity is quickly becoming unsustainable — costly, disjointed and all too fallible. Blockchain, the technology underlying distributed ledgers shared across a scalable group of individuals and institutions, takes a new approach. How should organizations approach this new opportunity?
Transparency that engenders trust
There is no doubt that blockchain is about bringing trust to transactions. For almost any supply chain — be it food, medical records, precious gems and minerals, real estate or credit default swaps, to name a few — success depends on the promise of transparency and auditability for all participants.
Fast forward
For centuries, global trade has been the single greatest creator of wealth in human history and market friction the greatest obstacle to wealth. Blockchain technology –which creates a permanent and transparent record of transactions –has the potential to obviate intractable frictions across industries.
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