THELOGICALINDIAN - US telecom behemothic Verizon appears accessible to accompany the blockchain amplitude as its website currently lists 35 vacancies acute blockchain technology ability
Verizon Joins the Fray
A contempo LinkedIn column for blockchain-engineers indicates that telecom giant, Verizon, could be in the action of architecture a blockchain-based artefact focused on privacy, payments, and security.
According to Verizon’s website the aggregation is attractive to appoint bristles blockchain engineers, forth with a “blockchain technology development” lead. Currently, Verizon has 35 listed vacancies that crave ‘blockchain knowledge’.
The role is declared as acute a being who:
One advert added explained that, “the focus of the alone will be on blockchain and added identity/security initiatives. (e.g. arcane computing, defended payments) in the arising technology space.”
Searching for a ‘Blockchain’ Needle in a Haystack
It’s bright that Verizon intends to body a “distributed arrangement [with] assorted use cases” and the telecom behemothic is not the aboriginal above amateur to accumulate the aggregation appropriate to focus on blockchain innovation.
Earlier this year, AT&T began accepting Bitcoin for cable payments via payments processor BitPay. Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and a beyond cardinal of banking institutions accept additionally been on a blockchain technology architect hiring aberration back aboriginal 2018. In fact, Verizon could appointment some adversity in hiring acceptable candidates.
A chief architect accustomed with the blockchain-sector told The Block that Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are “taking the chrism of the crop” back it comes to hiring blockchain engineers. The un-named engineers said:
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