IBM is Working on a Hardware Implementation for Blockchain Technology

Following the news from Microsoft, one of their main competitors IBM has also applied for a patent called “Node characterization in a blockchain,” which hosts a method for extracting information on a blockchain about a node. The patent comes from an Indian team employed by IBM, and is due to the work of:Bhavani K. Eshwar
Subramanian B. Manjunath
Soma S. Naganna
Subramanian PalaniappanThe patent was filed for on February 13th, 2017, so it took a lot of time for it to get pub