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Intro On Friday the 18th of November I embarked on a journey to Luton for IBM’s first Hackathon for the Hyperledger fabric and Blockchain technology. My initial interest in this event came from my lecturer when I was approached by her, and she asked if I’d like to attend. It’s worth mentioning here that I’d never attended a hackathon before the weekend of the 18th, but I knew of what they were and I had been interested in attending one for a long while, so I was keen. Same kind of story for blockchain, I knew of the technology, I mean for anyone that’s heard of Bitcoin will also know of the term blockchain so this also sparked my interest. I think now would be a good time to explain a bit about the technologies that were involved during the hacakthon event for those that may be a bit in the dark at this point, so if you already know about Hyperledger and blockchain technologies feel free to scroll past the explanations. ...

As some of you reading this may or may not already know; over the past day or so I went from having the idea of creating a computer program that would essentially be able to play the popular arcade game Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook, to actually developing it. Now as hard as this problem sounds, it was surprisingly easy and fairly swift to solve. I broke it down into three main steps: ...