Welcome Michelle Bond: Blockchain’s New Global Head of Policy
#ICYMI: We’re excited to welcome the latest addition to the Blockchain team, Michelle Bond as our Global Head of Policy.
As regulators and lawmakers continue to develop frameworks and guidance involving digital assets, actively engaging with policymakers and the government will be crucial. Michelle has significant experience engaging policymakers both in the United States and globally. She is a financial services lawyer, policy expert and former regulator. She was most recently the Deputy Head of Global Regulatory Affairs and Public Policy at Bloomberg LP, advising Bloomberg’s business on global financial regulation and evolving market structure.
Prior to joining Bloomberg, Michelle served at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, the United States Senate Banking Committee and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
She will leverage her deep expertise to provide regulatory and policy support for the creation of trading solutions and financial infrastructure as Blockchain builds out its product suite for institutional clients.
“Michelle has spent her entire career in law and policy, and I’m proud to welcome her to Blockchain where she will advocate for sound public policy in the digital asset space. In her new role, she will help to inform legislation and rulemaking initiatives and help foster innovation and growth in the industry,” said Marco Santori, President and Chief Legal Officer at Blockchain.
“It is an honor to join Blockchain, the leading software provider for digital currency and distributed ledger technology,” said Michelle Bond, Global Head of Policy. “I look forward to engaging with policymakers around the world to create a more modern and inclusive financial system, and am excited to leverage my public and private sector experience in this new role.” http://bit.ly/2GHnjNT
The Beginner’s Guide to Test RESTful APIs and Web Services
#ICYDK: REST API and RESTful Web Services Explained
REST API stands for Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interface. Some questions that might come up when you’re first starting to understand REST API are, “What is being represented exactly,” “What is a state,” and “What is being transferred?” So in this article, let’s look at all the words of REST API individually and learn what they all mean.
The word “representational” means there is a transfer of representations of resources, and the resources can be pretty much anything that can be named on the Internet like a list of users or a list of photos, comments, posts, articles, pages, videos, books, profiles, etc. To understand how exactly we get a representation of resources, you need to look at how everyone interacts with web pages, the client-server model, and the HTTP. Here’s the HTTP protocol: https://goo.gl/26ARuq