As a long-established technology giant, IBM has long played a pioneering role in the industry. The maturity of blockchain technology and its extensive use in various traditional fields make it difficult for industry leaders such as IBM to ignore it.

IBM has been aggressively expanding its global market in recent years. Indeed, in order to integrate with more advanced Internet technologies, blockchain technology is bound to be the entry point that best fits the current situation. However, the 21 most important competition is the talent competition, especially for international companies such as IBM. Only by mastering a wealth of blockchain talent can we gain a foothold in this emerging field.

It was reported by French news organization Le Monde that recently, IBM’s CEO Virginia Rometty said that IBM will recruit nearly 2,000 people in France, a large part of whom are focused on the development of blockchain technology.

Rometty said in an interview that IBM is currently hiring a section. She mentioned that the company is currently working with companies such as Crédit Mutuel, Orange Bank, Generali, the French national railway system, and Moet Hennessy LouisVuitton SE (LVMH).

In the interview, she also said: “In the next two years, IBM will employ 1,800 employees in France. In January, we announced a project to recruit 400 people for research. These jobs will include artificial intelligence, blockchain and networking.”

This is the latest move by IBM to promote and expand blockchain research. At last week’s “2018 Consensus Conference,” CoinDesk announced that it is working with Veridium Labs, an environmental technology start-up company, and will create carbon credentials on the Stellar network. Taking a step back, as previously reported by CoinDesk, IBM recently announced that it will work hard to solve advertising, humanitarian assistance, business registration, and insurance issues.

It is clear that IBM is very aware of its own development aspirations, especially in the current era of booming blockchain technology. Only by seizing the opportunity of the blockchain can we be invincible in the field. For giant companies such as IBM, this is not the case. It can be seen that blockchain technology really lives up.

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