Recap: Blockchain Israel’s Hackathon

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Can blockchain save the world? There are certainly a lot of people who think so. One of those people is my friend Yael Rozencwajg, the CEO at Blockchain Israel. Recently <a href="http://blockchainisrael.org/" target="_blank">Blockchain Israel</a> hosted a “<a href="http://blockchainisrael.org/blockchainforsocialimpact/" target="_blank">Blockchain for Social Impact</a>” Hackathon in Tel Aviv where participants were given a problem to solve that applied blockchain technology to a real world situation. The options for the blockchain capabilities were <a href="https://www.hyperledger.org/projects/fabric" target="_blank">IBM and Linux’s Hyperledger Fabric</a> or <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/ethereum-blockchain-as-a-service-now-on-azure/" target="_blank">Microsoft’s Azure + Workbench</a>.