{"id":26647,"date":"2016-12-15T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3971098"},"modified":"2016-12-15T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T21:30:00","slug":"blockchain-and-smart-contracts-cloudexpo-fintech-bitcoin-blockchain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/blockchain-and-smart-contracts-cloudexpo-fintech-bitcoin-blockchain\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockchain and Smart Contracts | @CloudExpo #FinTech #Bitcoin #Blockchain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blockchain is certainly the rage. No matter the industry, you can\u2019t seem to have a technology discussion before the topic is raised. According to Gartner\u2019s latest hype cycle for emerging technologies, blockchain is approaching the peak. It is considered by Gartner as one of the \u2018Key platform-enabling technologies to track.\u2019 Approximately $1.4B has been invested in blockchain just this year, according to PwC executive Seamus Cushley. While there is a lot of \u2018hype vs reality\u2019 discussions going on, there is no arguing that blockchain is being taken very seriously across industries and cannot be ignored.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3971098\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blockchain is certainly the rage. No matter the industry, you can&rsquo;t seem to have a technology discussion before the topic is raised. According to Gartner&rsquo;s latest hype cycle for emerging technologies, blockchain is approaching the peak. It is considered by Gartner as one of the &lsquo;Key platform-enabling technologies to track.&rsquo; Approximately $1.4B has been invested in blockchain just this year, according to PwC executive Seamus Cushley. While there is a lot of &lsquo;hype vs reality&rsquo; discussions going on, there is no arguing that blockchain is being taken very seriously across industries and cannot be ignored.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3971098\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26946,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26647\/revisions\/26946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}