Alt-News #6: Visa, IBM, Microsoft and USAA looking for ETH devs / HP joins Ethereum Enterprise Alliance / Venezuelan Bolivar worth half as much as WoW gold
I've already brought up that Visa was looking for Ethereum developers in Alt-News #1 and now it seems that IBM (which has for some time now already been exploring with blockchain tech and has their own youtube channel about it), Microsoft and USAA are also looking for developers for the Ethereum Blockchain.
It seems we are slowly stepping a foot onto the Mainstream with these giant companies looking to evolve their businesses with blockchain technology. In their job description they all also talk highly about the tech and its innovative and revolutionary advantages.
Here are some links to them to those interested.
Link to Microsoft's Job Posting
Quoting the first paragraph of the Microsoft one:
Distributed ledger and blockchain technologies are revolutionary innovations that enable popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, and have captured the attention of consumers and enterprises alike. But they’ re more than just a way to create digital currencies; they offer a way for Microsoft’s customers to create disruptive business models, and truly transform their businesses.
Only a few weeks after HP made an entrance into the blockchain industry, customers are already said to be testing the company's distributed ledger software. The ledger closed a funding round of $107 million in May 2017 and is working in a partnership with HP's own NonStop infrastructure. The proof-of-concept is being tested by customers using a "mission critical" platform for financial services but its believed that there is something even bigger going on behind the scenes. If successful this could be a big push for HP to catch up to IBM and other competitors that have been exploring blockchain technology for some time now.
HPE's financial services and insurance business lead told CoinDesk:
"We will be using R3 and Corda through our partnership to address use cases in payments, identity management and possibly other use cases that banks are currently looking at."
Venezuela's currency - the bolivar - is now worth less than the virtual in-game gold in the popular MMORPG World of Warcraft. According to Dolar Today which tracks the black market rates, values the bolivar to 12,197 per USD. Comparing this to the WoW gold it has a value of 6,482 gold pieces per dollar - the gold can be bought and only sold for game time subscription within the game (not counting black market deals).
Its sad to see headlines like these were an in-game economy is worth more than a real currency but with its past performance its not surprising. Last November the Bolivar lost over 60% value vs the dollar in only one month. Venezuela is not the only country getting hit by this inflation and I hope the balance that the blockchain tech brings will be of help to its citizens as soon as possible. We have already seen how our own platform has time after time again been a great help to the users located there.
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Excellent post. I from Venezuela and is hard the situation that we are living. The control of the dollar exchange has originated in a inflation up 700% per year .
In 2012 the dollar was in 20 bsf now in 2017 is in 13000 bsf. A total chaos.
Ouch :\ tough times man, i sincerely hope some change comes soon. Stay strong.
You can have acces to crypto with
http://monkeycoin.com.ve/
I just had the opportunity of having a video conference with the founders. I don´t know them personally but they seemed commited, still a good way to change BSF to Crypto, since they use Draglet.
I am not familiar with the service as a user myself, but definitely worth checking them out, specially if you are in Venezuela
i heard about it. Now i m using uphold and airtm to change crypto and bsf. Thanks for your recomendation.
I am about to use uphold, how is it?
Waiting for the verification
Excellent it is to easy to handle.
Looks like all the big companies jumping on the blockchain train and after that I think many smaller companies will do as well. I have a friend he is working on a blockchain for HRS Hotel Reservation Service. It is very cool to see what blockchain technology is doing for the world and how quick it grows.
THE WORLD IS GOING BLOCKCHAIN thanks for sharing this info have a nice day and Steem on :)
Oh wow, that sounds great!
And yeah, it was only a matter of time until this started happening and the world started seeing the real innovation! Can't wait for bigger investors to start moving funds over onto block-chain currencies!
Yes some big investors will come soon they can see what blockchain is capable of doing. What I like is the transparency. It will not give some corrupt people the chance to steal so easy more in some projects they can not fill there pockets that easy more with blockchain. And it helps in good projects like IOTA Foundation is doing with REFUNITE to help finding the lost family members through wars and conflicts. It is the best innovation after the internet. If you like check out my blog I do every day a post called "Your daily Crypto News" where I write 3-4 articles about what is new and going on in the crypto world.
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Ah was going to follow, forgot actually. Following you now :)
Keep up the good content and keep improving over time and you should be fine!
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With all of the activity going around ETH, I'm surprised it's having difficulty staying above $300 recently. But hey, this just means that it's building up and getting ready to shoot up! Especially with the August 17th on Bitstamp! Let's go, ETH!!!
The Blockchain technology has to be the backbone of every major company in the world in near future.
Thanks for the great info mate.
Haven't heard about that so it was very knowledgeable and interesting to read that.
Keep on posting and hope to see more .
It's interesting to read even though I do not understand everything. Thank you for sharing
Thanks...
It's means we are heading in a good future in steemit. I hope other international companies will jump in too.
Might only be they are only looking into the blockchain technology, not the crypto coins. If they were looking into cryptos, would have been enough to simplty integrate a wallet... I believe they are looking into creating new kind of applications to the blockchain.
Are you sure that blockchain can help those people with inflation? Hmm...
Crypto is super good and etc but... I mean it will only worsen the situation in this region (have an ominous feeling). Because they need stability.
The Blockchain is not ready yet. Maybe in few next years, I hope it will improve gradually. After adoption in the leading countries. Come on we can do this.
Volatility in crypto is nothing vs a currency that is only sinking in value.
@acidyo wow it's going for me good I'm still holding ethereum!! Thanks for sharing with us these news:)
Thanks for the article @acidyo, it's really crazy to think of "real" currency being worth less than WoW gold.
It's an understatement to say that South America is not succeeding with fiat. I remember the brazillian cruzeros(?) tumbling and Argentina had to link to the US dollar.
South Americans should be all too eager to get involved with crypto.