Microsoft's John Farmer: Bitcoin is Blockchain's Least Interesting App
With the sound of New York traffic raging noisily in the background, former pro-baseball player John Paul Farmer tells me he's intent on finding new ways in which technology can make a difference to people's lives. Lucky for him, he has the weight of Microsoft behind him. Farmer, an ex-shortstop for the Los Angeles Dodgers, joined the tech giant last year, having spent four years working as a senior advisor for innovation at the White House. Joining a large company wasn't really on his agenda - he considered joining a startup or even setting up his own company - but this all changed after....
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In a recent interview with Coindesk, former White House senior advisor John Farmer said he believes bitcoin as a currency is less interesting compared to blockchain. Although he concedes that the cryptocurrency deserves praise for uplifting the digital currency industry and bringing blockchain to the limelight, he maintained that blockchain technology has a bigger potential in transforming the world. John Farmer is currently working with Microsoft as the company's director of technology and civic innovation. He used to play the shortstop position for the Los Angeles Dodgers and has joined....
The ways in which blockchain technology can be used to support social good were discussed at an event hosted by Microsoft's Civic Innovation team in New York last night. Taking place at the LMHQ venue in Lower Manhattan, the event was kicked off by John Paul Farmer, director of technology and civic innovation at Microsoft. Farmer, who previously served as the senior advisor for innovation in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, explained the purpose of the session was to explore the kind of impact blockchain technology can have when used in new and creative ways. He....
Computing giant Microsoft is rolling out a toolkit that will let its enterprise users build on the Ethereum protocol. Thanks to a partnership with Ethereum collective ConsenSys, business users of Microsoft's cloud-based Azure service will be able to access Ethereum Blockchain-as-a-Service, or 'E BaaS'. The sandbox initiative, announced today, will be unveiled on 10th November at Ethereum's DEVCON1 event in London. Marley Gray, Microsoft's director of technology strategy for its US Financial Services, said in a statement: "Our enterprise clients will have the ability to deploy private and....
Microsoft New York and MIT Media Lab presented a 70-minute report called #Blockchain4good this week. Speakers included Brian Forde, MIT Media Lab director of digital currency and former senior technology adviser at the White House, and John Paul Farmer, director of technology and civic innovation at Microsoft. They led discussions on using the blockchain for fraud-free voting, storage of identities, response to natural disasters and a public ledger of properties such as land. Other speakers, including Chelsea Barabas, Ann Kim, Ryan Shea and Peter Kirby, focused on introducing the....
We ask the buidlers in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sector for their thoughts on the industry… and throw in a few random zingers to keep them on their toes! This week, our 6 Questions go to John deVadoss, the head of development at Neo an open-source blockchain development platform and a governing board member at the Global Blockchain Business Council, an industry association for the blockchain technology ecosystem.I am proud to say that I build the best developer tools in the blockchain industry for N3. I also build the tools for the Token Taxonomy Framework as part of the Global....