[2016-08-12] Blockchain Trials Accelerate as South America Sees Ethereum Uptake

[Karartma1]

Argentinian wine and Brazilian timber are just the latest products being transformed by entrepreneurs building distributed applications on the ethereum blockchain in South America.
One of Brazil's largest banks recently built a smart contract designed to automate parts of the process by which a company goes public; a group in Chile is working to help scale the blockchain using the Inter-Planetary File System (IPFS); and a team in Nicaragua is building a secure identity system using Ricardian contracts.

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http://www.coindesk.com/consensys-ethereum-south-america-trials-blockchain/

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[Kaneki]

Of about 100 employees scattered across five continents, three have taken a leadership position to run these diverse projects that push the limits of how a blockchain can be used.