Bitcoin Developer Jeff Garzik Launches Enterprise Blockchain Support Startup
Jeff Garzik, Bitcoin and former RHEL developer, has launched an enterprise blockchain technology startup, Bloq inc. The Company Operates in a similar way to Red Hat, except they develop blockchain tools and offer support for those technologies instead of Linux. This announcement comes at a critical point in the block size debate, suggesting the core developer expects non-bitcoin blockchain tech to be on the upswing in spite of the fallout from the Bitcoin Classic branch split. Garzik Takes Enterprise Linux Experience to the Blockchain. The utility of the blockchain is increasingly....
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Jeff Garzik is one of the most respected developers in the Bitcoin industry. He has been a Bitcoin core developer and has worked for various other companies, such as BitPay. Recently, he started his own blockchain-as-a-service firm, Bloq, which will serve enterprise clients who wish to develop stems on a private, public or confederated blockchain. In a recent discussion with Bitcoin Magazine, Garzik expressed his belief that, currently, blockchain technology is moving from Step Three to Step Four in a model he crafted. “Step One is digital currency, the very first use case of blockchain,”....
Bitcoin entreprenuer Jeff Garzik has started Bloq, a code-for-hire service to develop features for blockchain software and provide access to blockchain support, according to Bloomberg. The company charges $3,000 to $5,000 per month. PriceWaterhouseCoopers has agreed to sell the service to its customers. “That opens up a lot of doors for us early in the company’s lifetime,” Garzik said. “Companies know who to call at 3 a.m. if the blockchain is melting down.” Garzik modeled Bloq on Red Hat Inc., which helped businesses develop and deploy Linux and other open-source software. From working at....
While many people believe there is a divide in the Bitcoin community when it comes to the early-adopting libertarians and the new breed of venture capitalists, it seems that the real battle in the world of cryptocurrency is between Bitcoin and appcoins. Around the same time that Chris Odom, the creator of Open Transactions, was dismissing the relevance of altcoins at InsideBitcoins London, Bitcoin core developer Jeff Garzik was tied up in a public spat with the NXT community. As someone who has been suspicious of projects that create their own cryptocoins for quite some time, I'm happy to....
Friday means the weekend is almost upon us, and what better way to celebrate the weekend than by hosting a Bitcoin AMA with Jeff Garzik and Marshall Long? Starting a 9AM EST, Bitcoin Core Developer and DSS CEO Jeff Garzik will be taking your questions and answering them. At noon, the shift will change, and FinalHash’s CTO Marshall Long will take the....
Former Bitcoin Core developer and cryptographer Jeff Garzik has officially been appointed as a board member of the Linux Foundation, joining executives from multi-billion dollar companies including Intel, Panasonic, Cisco, and Qualcomm, in order to promote the collaborative development of Blockchain. Currently, Garzik serves as the only board member of the Linux Foundation qualified to be considered as an expert within the field of Bitcoin and Blockchain. Garzik has made significant contributions to the field, leading the creation of popular repositories, including that of a Python miner....