"Blockchain is to money what the internet is to information." says one of the talking heads: reduces cost of moving money between businesses to zero.
Nice find/me like: BTCS is in the thick of it.
IBM this week announced a massive internal re-organization to cater to blockchain.
It is one of many recent signs that the peer-to-peer ledger technology, which first came along with the digital currency bitcoin, has serious future applications in big business. Or it is at least a sign that big companies are convinced they ought to examine it further. (What exactly is blockchain? Watch this primer video.)
The computing giant will create a new unit called Watson Financial Services to encompass Watson, cloud, and all blockchain-related offerings and strategy. Bridget van Kralingen, IBM’s senior VP of global banking services, will take on the role of building the unit, and take a new title, VP of industry platforms. To replace van Kralingen in global banking services, IBM has hired Mark Foster, a former Accenture executive...