{"id":28432,"date":"2017-03-22T17:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T17:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/4039862"},"modified":"2017-03-22T17:31:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T17:31:00","slug":"blockchain-byzantine-generals-and-achieving-consensus-cloudexpo-cloud-fintech-blockchain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/blockchain-byzantine-generals-and-achieving-consensus-cloudexpo-cloud-fintech-blockchain\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockchain: Byzantine Generals and Achieving Consensus | @CloudExpo #Cloud #FinTech #Blockchain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When discussing disruptive technologies, the topic of blockchain inevitably enters the conversation. Gartner recently listed blockchain 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. IBM announced this week a Blockchain-as-a-Service Enterprise offering at their Interconnect Conference. 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\/4039862\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When discussing disruptive technologies, the topic of blockchain inevitably enters the conversation. Gartner recently listed blockchain 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. IBM announced this week a Blockchain-as-a-Service Enterprise offering at their Interconnect Conference. 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\/4039862\" 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-28432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28432","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=28432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28433,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28432\/revisions\/28433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}