Tech Talk: Salesforce adopts blockchain electronic ledger

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Blockchain technology is drawing millions of dollars in investment into the Philadelphia region, as companies like Comcast and SAP pour resources into development initiatives and universities hustle to meet student demand. (Montco.Today file photo.)

The Salesforce company is working on adopting the use of blockchain, the electronic ledger that  tracks Bitcoin or other digital currencies, company co-founders Marc Benioff and Parker Harris said recently in an interview.

Benioff told a story of being at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland where a bit of serendipity led him to start thinking about blockchain and how it could be used as part of the Salesforce  family of products, writes Ron Miller at techcrunch.com.

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In addition to tracking digital currencies, blockchain also has a more general business role. As an irrefutable and immutable record, it can track just about anything of value.

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