Blockchain @ Azure

An excellent overview of Blockchain technology and Microsoft efforts and products for it:
Blockchain - MS Dev Show Podcast

Microsoft Azure Blockchain forum

Announcing the Coco Framework for enterprise blockchain networks | Blog | Microsoft Azure

Ethereum Project
Home - Hyperledger

10 software development predictions for 2018 | InfoWorld

#1: B2B transactions leveraging blockchain go into production

Blockchain technology is started 10 yeast ago by "Satoshi Nakamoto"
(still ) unknown person or people who designed bitcoin and created its original reference implementation

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (PDF)
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System | Satoshi Nakamoto Institute

The original source code was for Windows only, in C++. Current source:

bitcoin/bitcoin: Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree @ GitHub