{"id":26996,"date":"2017-01-05T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3980978"},"modified":"2017-01-05T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T14:00:00","slug":"is-blockchain-the-ultimate-open-source-disruptive-technology-cloudexpo-cloud-fintech-blockchain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/is-blockchain-the-ultimate-open-source-disruptive-technology-cloudexpo-cloud-fintech-blockchain\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Blockchain the Ultimate Open Source Disruptive Technology? | @CloudExpo #Cloud #FinTech #Blockchain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures has been talking a lot about the blockchain recently, so I decided to learn more about it. I read the Marketing the Blockchain e-book, watched The Grand Vision of a Crypto-Tech Economy video and the video keynote of Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne at the Bitcoin 2014 conference, and did some more research on my own. While far from an expert, I do see some interesting similarities to the adoption of open source software. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3980978\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures has been talking a lot about the blockchain recently, so I decided to learn more about it. I read the Marketing the Blockchain e-book, watched The Grand Vision of a Crypto-Tech Economy video and the video keynote of&#8230;<\/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-26996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26996","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=26996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27139,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26996\/revisions\/27139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}