IBM Director Declares 'We’re All in on Blockchain'
Global tech giant IBM took its latest step in leveraging its existing brand power to position itself as an enterprise blockchain solutions leader today, appearing at the The Block Chain Conference in San Francisco. There, IBM’s Global Blockchain Offering Director John Wolpert gave a keynote speech, his half hour talk covering the deficiencies in the approaches being taken by today’s blockchain developers and why he believes a more collaborative approach is needed to bring the tech to market. The talk follows the news that IBM is participating in the Hyperledger Project, an open-source....
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