Bitcoin Hardware Wallet Maker Ledger to Attend 2016 International CES

The 2016 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) will be held in Las Vegas, the United States from January 6th to 9th. The 2015 CES attracted a record 176,000 visitors. This year's CES will also attract much attention from around the world. It is estimated that more than 3,600 manufacturers will participate in the exhibition. This is also a good opportunity for venture capital companies to observe the technology development trends in 2016 and think about how to deploy investment areas.

Well-known venture capitalist Fred Wilson recently published a blog post predicting major changes that will take place in the Internet technology field in 2016. Fred Wilson listed ten important changes in the article. Among them, the zero-interest P2P trading market that uses the Open Bazaar protocol as the supporting technology is a more promising innovative business model in Fred Wilson's view. He said that "Bitcoin is finally going to find its killer app." It should be noted that Open Bazaar is one of the three Bitcoin and blockchain companies invested by Fred Wilson's venture capital firm USV. The other two are Bitcoin service company Coinbase and open source identity protocol OneName.

It is expected that the hot spots of this exhibition will focus on areas such as driverless cars, virtual reality, drone applications and artificial intelligence. These new development trends are also of great significance to the Bitcoin community. As the demand for Internet-connected devices increases, Bitcoin will play an important role in it because there is a convergence between the problems that Bitcoin solves and the challenges faced by the Internet of Things. IBM has seen this.

IBM, which has invested massive resources in the Internet of Things, is troubled by some of the key flaws of the Internet of Things. Bitcoin blockchain technology has allowed them to see possible solutions to these key problems, so it has joined forces with Samsung to use Bitcoin blockchain technology to create a decentralized Internet of Things, called the "ADEPT system."

Ledger, a Bitcoin hardware wallet manufacturer, will reportedly attend this year's International Consumer Electronics Show and will be the only Bitcoin startup to participate. Ledger will showcase their enterprise-level blockchain technology products to the audience at the show, including their original Ledger Bitcoin wallet, Ledger BLUE and Ledger FIDO. Ledger FIDO is a public key encryption technology developed by Ledger through the FIDO alliance (a non-profit organization established in July 2012 to innovate network authentication methods) to achieve stronger authentication functions.

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Source: Babbitt Information (http://www.8btc.com/ledger-ces-2016)