Hacker Noon June 26, 2019
Google became popular by taking a nebulous, disorganized, and opaque landscape (the internet) and making it easily searchable. Now, the tech giant wants to do the same thing for a similarly novel technological advancement: the blockchain.
Earlier this year, Google announced its deployment of a suite of open source tools for developers to better understand the blockchain as it relates to cryptocurrency. As part of the BigQuery Public Datasets program, Google had previously released public datasets for the transaction history of both Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Now, there are six other cryptocurrencies in the mix: Bitcoin Cash, Dash, Ethereum Classic, Litecoin, Zcash, and of course, the most important cryptocurrency, Dogecoin. Most of these cryptocurrencies are considered to be a part of...