{"id":1264,"date":"2017-10-05T20:59:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T20:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2017-10-05T21:05:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T21:05:33","slug":"news-oracle-blockchain-cloudflare-bans-website-miners-securing-your-bitcoins-ibm-watson-hype-bitcoin-on-the-paleo-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/10\/05\/news-oracle-blockchain-cloudflare-bans-website-miners-securing-your-bitcoins-ibm-watson-hype-bitcoin-on-the-paleo-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"News: Oracle Blockchain, Cloudflare bans website miners, securing bitcoins, IBM Watson hype, Bitcoin paleo diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Oracle is introducing <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2017\/10\/02\/oracle-blockchain\/\">Blockchain on the Oracle Cloud!<\/a> Specifically, hosted Hyperledger Fabric. Speaking from inside the IT industry, as far as I can tell Oracle is regarded as the &#8220;me too&#8221; cloud provider \u2014 Amazon for most people, Microsoft Azure for Windows shops, Google if you want to set up a second source to Amazon, Ali&#8217;s clone of Amazon if you&#8217;re doing business in China \u2014 and trust in Oracle is not very high. (Ask anyone who&#8217;s finally replaced Oracle&#8217;s database and never wants to speak to Oracle licensing \u2014 otherwise known as the &#8220;Postgres Marketing Department&#8221; \u2014 ever again.) So this looks like an attempt to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oracle.com\/fusionmiddleware\/oracle-joins-hyperledger-consortium\">differentiate themselves<\/a>. They joined Hyperledger in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyperledger.org\/announcements\/2017\/08\/29\/hyperledger-adds-3-new-members\">late August<\/a>; I can&#8217;t see any public code contributions as yet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Cloudflare <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/cloudflare-bans-sites-for-using-cryptocurrency-miners-171004\/\">bans sites for using cryptocurrency miners<\/a> \u2014 unannounced miners are considered &#8220;malware.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A useful article from Naked Security on <a href=\"https:\/\/nakedsecurity.sophos.com\/2017\/10\/02\/bitcoins-soft-and-vulnerable-underbelly\/\">the practical difficulties in securing your bitcoins<\/a>. The cryptography is great! The problem is everything else.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Compare the &#8220;IBM Blockchain&#8221; hype cycle to <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2017\/09\/former-ibm-employee-ai-truth-needs-come\/\">this piece<\/a> on the IBM Watson hype cycle. &#8220;The promise of AI integration into products was dangled to him routinely but never materialized &#8230; It was all proof of concept.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>BRB, starting a <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/ne74nw\/inside-the-world-of-the-bitcoin-carnivores\">statins, stents and bypass surgery ICO<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>For that last, note Matt Levine at Bloomberg&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2017-07-26\/tokens-vaults-ties-and-taxes\">successful July prediction<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>The conventional wisdom is that cryptocurrency is about re-learning all of the lessons of modern finance in a sped-up way &#8230; But what if it&#8217;s the opposite? What if the story arc of cryptocurrency is about traveling back in time? First bitcoin was a way to make electronic payments without using banks; now it is a way to keep money in a safe deposit box at a bank without being able to use it to make payments; at this rate, in a decade, it will be a face-to-face barter system. By 2050, bitcoin users will undiscover fire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<br><br><div align=\"center\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/become_a_patron_button.svg\" alt=\"Become a Patron!\" title=\"Become a Patron!\" width=217 height=51><\/a><br><p style=\"align:center;\" class=\"patreon-badge\"><i>Your subscriptions keep this site going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\">Sign up today!<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;By 2050, bitcoin users will undiscover fire.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[125,124,64,127,6,128,126,123],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-cloud","tag-cloudflare","tag-hyperledger","tag-ibm-watson","tag-links","tag-matt-levine","tag-naked-security","tag-oracle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}