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To help developers at new blockchain startups, and at companies seeking to start using blockchain, IBM has developed the IBM Blockchain Platform Starter Plan to help them build blockchain proof-of-concepts quickly and affordably.

It offers an end-to-end blockchain development experience: a secure test environment, a suite of education tools and modules and one-click network provisioning. It is built on the open source Hyperledger Fabric.



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More than 2,000 developers and tens of thousands of transaction blocks used the Starter Plan in a three-month test environment, said Jerry Cuomo, vice president of blockchain technology at IBM.

The Starter Plan is for enterprises -- whether startups, large corporations or government agencies -- that want to understand and use blockchain technology, Cuomo said.

It is designed to make the technology disappear so developers can focus on their ideas rather than how to operate a test network.

“Starter is to provide the developers and test environment with single click deployment to enable an aspiring blockchain developer to get started,” he said. “When we put it out there as a beta in March of this year we saw very quick and significant adoption.

We had over 2000 smart contract contributors, developers building contracts on the platform and deploying smart contracts of every variety imaginable,” he added.

The Starter Plan attracted some companies he describes as “born on the blockchain” including Road Launch for logistics, Mediaocean, which automates and tracks digital ad buys, and Global Debt Registry, which helps institutional investors and warehouse lenders manage risk, improve efficiency and pricing in the credit markets by providing solutions that ensure the integrity of a loan asset.

“The Starter Plan is a great place to start because it offers low cost and high value, with the tools we provide on top of open source,” Cuomo said.

For now the plan runs on the IBM cloud although he suggested it may be available on other clouds in the future. Continue to page 2 on Forbes here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomgroenfeldt/2018/06/28/ibm-launches-starter-kit-for-blockchain-develo...

Dr. Greg Colvin and Alex Leverington, developers of Ethereum DEV, have joined the Lunyr team as technical advisors. Lunyr’s token crowdsale begins on March 29, 2017 at 16:00 UTC.

Lunyr is an Ethereum-based decentralized crowdsourced encyclopedia which rewards users with app tokens for peer-reviewing and contributing information. Lunyr has announced that Alex Leverington has joined the team as a technical advisor. Alex has been involved with Ethereum as a core developer since the very beginning.

He worked at ETHDEV, where he architected and programmed devp2p, Ethereum’s underlying P2P protocol layer. Alex has made key contributions in Ethereum encryption and security, primarily touching the various communications protocols. He remains active in the protocol steering group.

Last week, Dr. Greg Colvin, who works on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) for Ethereum DEV, also joined the team. His work includes pushing the boundaries of EVM performance and evolving the EVM architecture and Ethereum specification. Greg has had decades of technical experience inventing algorithms, designing systems, and programming applications and servers. His experience includes building and leading world class teams...continue reading: https://news.bitcoin.com/ethereum-dev-developers-join-lunyr-team-as-technical-advisors/?utm_source=O...

Cryptography, it’s all around us, and it’s here to stay. My name is Carsen Klock, I am a developer, designer, and crypto entrepreneur. I want to share several things I’ve learned about developing cryptocurrency with you.Back in 2013 and 2014, I created a plethora of altcoins, aka. cryptocurrencies based off the Bitcoin Core source.

Specifically at that point in time, version 0.8. Going into crypto I saw a lot of coins that were just blatant copies of Bitcoin, Litecoin, with no new innovation.During this time, I saw a gap in the cryptocurrency industry. A very large gap between; innovation, and scams. I decided to create several coins that helped to change the industry for the better. I had invented the X13, X14, X15, and FRESH (NIST5) hashing algorithms and python mining modules. Unfortunately a lot of coins that I had implemented these features with, were more so small projects to test these new algorithms.

With the PoW consensus methods, most of my coins failed due to a lack of consistent development on my end and a huge amount of FUD within the Bitcoin community. I had also created the first working PoS transition hybrid coin where after a set amount of blocks the coin would transition from a Proof Of Work consensus to a Proof Of Stake.

These consensus methods are still very controversial, PoW or PoS? We can see this now with the crypto called Ethereum. In my opinion the PoS consensus method is flawed, the rewards are low, miners are cancelled out, and the rich get richer...continue reading: https://themerkle.com/my-experience-as-a-cryptocurrency-developer/?utm_medium=push&utm_source=onesig...