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Hyperledger: What is it, what's it good for, and wasn't it in Spaceballs?

In Spaceballs , Darth Vader parody Dark Helmet has his Luke Skywalker parody Lone Starr right where he wants him when Lone Starr tells his co-pilot Barf to "switch to secret hyper-jets" and to go into "hyper-active." There are many different blockchains out there. There is the Bitcoin blockchain. There is the Ethereum blockchain. And there is also the Hyperledger blockchain among many others. Is the Hyperledger blockchain as fast as ludicrous speed? Are the rest just a bunch of Cuisinarts? This post is dedicated to discussing the Hyperledger blockchain, the blockchain that the edX "Blockchain for Business: An Introduction to Hyperledger Technologies" course focuses on. How did the Hyperledger come about? The Hyperledger Project is a product of The Linux Foundation . The Linux Foundation is "the organization of choice for building sustainable open source ecosystems" according to their website. What that means is that the Hype...