Among highlights from the article:
"IBM says it expects to start offering the software for sale to the public in the next few weeks. The product is being packaged as a cloud-based subscription service, priced based on the size of the enterprise. For small businesses with under $50 million in revenues, it goes for $100 a month; for larger ones, the price goes up to $10,000."
"Big companies—particularly IBM and Microsoft (MSFT)—have invested heavily in developing blockchain. Neither company breaks out its blockchain-based revenue in public financial documents, and they didn’t share the data with Barron’s. WinterGreen Research, a Massachusetts company that tracks technology trends, estimates that IBM and Microsoft together control 51% of the blockchain market, which overall generated $706 million in revenue last year.
“I believe we are furthest along,” says Wieck of IBM, which has worked with more than 500 clients."
- A weirdly labelled chart predicting another bubble for blockchain:
(Obviously any predictions this far into the future are nonsense, but still interesting to see)
