WARNING - GEEK episode! Cale takes us into the futuristic world of Blockchains and explains the technology to us mere mortals. We also explore what this means to host this technology on Azure. Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode120.mp3 Resources: https://ethereum.github.io/solidity/ https://www.ethernodes.org/network/1 https://bitnodes.21.co/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/partners/consensys/blockapps-strato/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/search/blog/?q=blockchain Other resources and updates: Microservices: An application revolution powered by the cloud https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microservices-an-application-revolution-powered-by-the-cloud/ Developer's introduction to Azure IoT https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/developer-s-introduction-to-azure-iot/ Application Packages and Task Dependencies now available on Azure Batch https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/application-packages-and-task-dependencies-now-available-on-azure-batch/ Full text search of audio and video files https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/full-text-search-of-audio-and-video-files/ Transitioning to the Resource Manager model https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/transitioning-to-the-resource-manager-model/