
Microsoft Launches Decentralized Identity Tool on Bitcoin Blockchain
Microsoft is building an open source project known as Ion, the first of its kind to be launched on Bitcoin blockchain. The program manager on the blockchain engineering team at Microsoft, Yorke Rhodes told CoinDesk that the project has been underway for at least a year now. The idea is to create a software that signs and validates keys, which will operate on a public blockchain, finally the project is launching on the oldest blockchain there is, Bitcoin.