So apparently Mærsk (the largest shipping company in the world) and IBM, are forming a shared company, in order to create a platform to optimize the processes behind shipping of goods. It is intended to utilize "crypto", and will be an open platform which all docks and shipping companies will utilize.
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“There’s a lot of write-up about blockchain. But what we see is that the thing that is going to help the world is blockchain as a distributed ledger. The significance of that is huge for any transaction that has multiple parties,”
Lucas Cooper
wtf ?
Ian Jenkins
>distributed ledger. Why is this related to Link?
Camden Garcia
Instant foreign exchange it’s gonna be Ripple lol
Landon Baker
there was a contract by some scandinavian shipping company discovered by some anons a few days ago, could be maersk
Matthew Ward
No its another coin that's related specifically to shipping.
Gabriel Cox
Well they talked about sharing informations, it is the movement of information, so I assumed that this was related to what LINK does.
Aaron Powell
XLM probably
Camden Walker
IBM's CTO has been shilling xlm
Jacob Gonzalez
Looks like an in-house solution already in use by others.
Face it - crypto is a load of shit, nobody needs "coins"
The Blockchain will live on through non-autistic means
Adam Allen
On a general note, I don't think you people appreciate the scope of this. every year the transportation of goods with containerships are worth trillions of dollars. If it is XLM, or whatever they choose to use, the price will surpass the price of bitcoin. This will undoubtedly be the largest real life application of the block chain, there has ever been.
Jack Young
shipchain?
Jeremiah Gray
its shipchain
Chase Bell
It's probably going to be an ICO on FairX desu
Joseph Sanchez
It's block array
Joshua Diaz
DiguSign is literally made for this.
Xavier Perez
its raiblocks BUY BUY BUY
Blake Adams
They have just agreed to establishing a shared company, with the intend to create this platform. As I see it, they have two options either create their own token, or collaborate with an already existing partner which has the tech they need. Odds are they will choose the latter.
Jackson Hill
FUCK OFF PAJEEEEEEEEEEET
Thomas Edwards
Wtf are you talking about!? This thread is probably the best thread this board have had in years. Rather than continuing with the eternal Ponzi-scheme of monopoly money, here is a case where there is a potential where there is a coin - which we are trading, which can go x10.000, because it will end up having a real life application - in the entire shipping industry!!
Owen Diaz
Why would IBM create another network when they already have a partner that offers exactly what they need here. They even host some of the network core nodes.
Aaron Flores
So XLM is exactly what they need? I will probably have to go 50% in on XLM at least then..
Elijah Watson
Why wouldn't they just use a tokenless ksi blockchain like they did in all their tests
Leo Diaz
SHIPCHAIN shipchain.io I'm they will also have good connections to BitA bita.studio/members
Juan Hernandez
>like they did in all their tests As I said previously, it is a newly formed company, so they haven't have their first work day. So I don't know what tests you are talking about, someone done by IBM I assume?
They're using Hyperledger Fabric, a private and permissioned blockchain system. Hyperledger Fabric is perfect for tracking assets through a supply chain using a private blockchain. It has nothing to do with XLM I'm afraid.