This happens with most of the technologies. Remember the days when AJAX was introduced? every other site was being ajaxified. Tech companies were promoting it a

This happens with most of the technologies. Remember the days when AJAX was introduced? every other site was being ajaxified. Tech companies were promoting it as if something very unique arrived in this world. Later it was found that Microsoft was using it in outlook for long time, it's just they failed to coin the term for it. Same seems with blockchain and as usual IBM is at it's best to cash this hype for enterprises who are already customer of their products one way or other, specially Middle east countries.