THELOGICALINDIAN - Jeff Garzik CEO and cofounder of Bloq has been appointed as the organizations adumbrative on the Linux Foundations Board of Directors
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Garzik Providing Linux Foundation With Bitcoin Technology Expertise
Garzik, aforetime a 10-year agent at Red Hat, brings a abundance of Bitcoin Core development acquaintance aback to the arch open-source software development foundation. The Linux Foundation is spearheading a conglomerate of organizations complex with the Hyperledger Project, of which Bloq is a member. Garzik’s attendance on the Linux Foundation’s lath should hopefully help to arch advancing efforts in the accessible source, Linux apple with advancements in the cryptocurrency space.
Garzik will accompany a lath which already contains members of giants Cisco, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel, Oracle and Samsung. Speaking to this development, Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of The Linux Foundation, remarked, “We’re admiring to acceptable Jeff to The Linux Foundation Lath of Directors. His acclamation by his aeon of over 200 Linux Foundation associates is attestation to Jeff’s acceptability as both a technologist and a strategist.”
Collaborative efforts amid the Linux Foundation and Bloq should accompany added absorption to detail in advancing blockchain architectonics discussion, a added compassionate of the abeyant coaction amid blockchain technology and open-source operating systems. Along this note, Mr. Garzik was not shy in account his action about the announcement.
“Open antecedent is basic to adopting and developing avant-garde technologies,” said Garzik. “We saw this in the aboriginal canicule of Linux, and the parallels with blockchain-enabled technologies are undeniable. Red Hat fabricated Linux attainable to action companies, now Bloq is accomplishing the aforementioned for blockchain.”
The account follows an announcement from February that Digital Asset Holdings donated the Hyperledger name to the Linux foundation. Hyperledger, a bunch fabricated up of over 80 members including Accenture, J.P. Morgan, and IBM, is adventure development of a cardinal of projects aimed at creating prototypes, standards, and best practices for development of blockchain technology.
Bloq, an accessible antecedent blockchain action aimed at solving key business issues surrounding security, provenance, affidavit and adaptation may see an added collaborative role with the Linux Foundation and Hyperledger as a aftereffect of the appointment.
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