Wall Street Journal: Beijing Tries to Put Its Imprint on Blockchain

“The blockchain community is utterly fascinated by [BSN] because it’s such a big bold move,” said Alan Pelz–Sharpe, founder of technology advisory Deep Analysis…..

A Beijing-backed initiative aims to shape a category of online record-keeping called blockchain. Most commonly associated with bitcoin, blockchain holds broad promise for business and other uses but has been hobbled by a lack of uniform technical standards.