Ukraine's fury into blockchain

Cool that Ukraine and bitfury are launching a full scale blockchain government pilot.  Bitfury is part of a Richard Branson Startup.

Thomson Reuters blockone blockchain beta

Blockone blockchain utilizing Ethereum sounds like an interesting project.  I will test this out and let you know what works and what doesn't.  Stay tuned. 

IOT & Blockchain

A IOT blockchain based storage and system management system.

This sounds interesting, but early stages and a work in progress. 

Porsche seeks blockchain startups

Porsche seeks startups for blockchain initiatives.  These are more aqui-hire opportunities over invest in a startup to grow opportunities though.  Or just get a lot of cheap proposals and POCs.

Plantoid Primavera De Filippi

https://youtu.be/Xu2c0CzaMyk

Scaling Blockchain by thinking like a biologist

Great line about scaling blockchain. I agree.  So maybe we should start working with biologists and chemists and strategize a way to design and scale blockchain in terms of independent distributed biological nodes.

"Systems will never scale if you require global consensus for local actions by independent agents. For example, I should not have to know where every dollar in the economy is when I want to buy something from you"

https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/arthur-brock-blockchains-major-design-flaw/2016/03/15?utm_source&utm_medium&utm_campaign

Maersk container ship blockchain

Maersk + IBM + blockchain (hyperledger) innovating supply chain container shipping.

Sweden testing blockchain Land registry

Interesting test going on in Sweden in regards to a blockchain Land Registry.  There are some challenges ahead , but it'll be interesting to see what comes of this and what's next. 

Sweden blockchain Land Registry

Blockchain for shipping containers

http://www.coindesk.com/worlds-largest-shipping-company-tracking-cargo-blockchain/

Blockchain for container ships

Blockchain as a service IBM and Microsoft ?

https://www.americanbanker.com/news/bank-blockchain-choices-may-come-down-to-ibm-vs-microsoft

It will be interesting to see how this all plays out , but the decentralized aspect is lost in all of these new prototypes, experiments and alliances. 

Blockchain for gold

http://www.coindesk.com/global-banks-pilot-blockchain-gold/

Sounds promising, but will big banks push it forward or lock it down. 

Blockchain developer shortage.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/the-blockchain-developer-shortage-emerging-trends-and-perspectives-1477930838