Lightweight blockchain clients were crucial for IBM Blue Horizon engineers - enabled them to install IoT apps in vehicles.
IBM ran into scalability & cost problems with public blockchains, thus pushing them to Hyperledger. Sounds like @jgarzik’s Fidelity Problem.
bluehorizon.network only uses Ethereum as a proof of concept b/c it can only support ~20K devices. Will eventually use Hyperledger.
Create a weather station on bluehorizon.network & it registers a Weather Underground account & sends them data. pic.twitter.com/LQ1xvSEUYk
@masonic_tweets Yep, should be interesting to compare the two.
Blue Horizon incorporates Ethereum , Telehash, and BitTorrent protocols. Designed to run on a Raspberry Pi. bluehorizon.network
IBM’s Blue Horizon IoT technology will be open sourced in the next few months! bluehorizon.network
If your job is easily automated by a bit of hardware and/or software, you’re essentially a biological robot. https://t.co/G1gbOWC3ES