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Google has just joined the Hedera Hashgraph governance council. As Libra, Hedera Hashgraph is consortium-based. Actually, the CEO of Hedera Hashgraph complained that the governance model was copied after meeting Facebook a while ago with an ad on the Wall Street Journal as seen in the following link: Hashgraph took out a full page ad in the WSJ sarcastically "thanking Facebook" lmao pic.twitter.com/AO6AxMJyw8 — Rob "Crypto Bobby" Paone (@crypto_bobby) June 22, 2019  From a technical point of view, Hedera is not based on a blockchain: it is based on a hashgraph, which another type of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) than a blockchain. One of the technical advantages of a hashgraph is that it reaches a very high number of transactions per second (TPS) compared to a blockchain (not considering layer 2): 100 000 TPS for Hedera Hashgraph compared to around 1000 TPS for Libra. A high TPS is important for the global payment application domain, for

Reputaction Thailand Blockchain Seminar Feedback Dr. Jean-Marc Seigneur, President of Reputaction, has been to Bangkok during the first week of September 2018 to teach blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) and cryptocurrencies to around 70 delegates of the Ministry of Digital Economy of Thailand and International Telecommunication Union (ITU). So many Asian countries with interesting DLT use-cases Most of the delegates were from Asian countries, e.g., Thailand, Laos, Bhutan, Indonesia, Malaysia or India and all came up with very interesting DLT uses-cases. During the first days they were taught the basics of blockchain and DLT including terminology, consensus algorithms, blocks versus directed acyclic graphs (DAG), 51% attacks, tokenomics... Then, they split into teams and had to come up with a convincing use-case of DLT. For example, they presented an Hyperledger-based halal certification system, permissioned between each Asian country administration in charge of hala