Contact Person : joe zepeda ; Last Date for the submission of abstract : 16/07/2018; Bitcoin. Ethereum. Hyperledger. With all the cryptocurrency buzzwords flying around, it is hard to get to the core of all of these technologies. The essential piece that serves as the underlying mechanism of all these technologies is blockchain. Blockchain is a decentralized, trustless, distributed ledger technology that was popularised by the Bitcoin global cryptocurrency platform.