SINGAPORE (Feb 23): In the last 12 months, with its rise, fall and rebound, the cryptocurrency bitcoin has virtually hijacked blockchain technology.

Mined using blockchain, a type of distributed ledger technology (DLT), bitcoin and the other cryptocurrencies have a total market capitalisation of US$460 billion ($607.6 billion) as at Feb 18, according to CoinMarketCap.

And looking at investment proxies for blockchain, one name stands out: International Business Machines Corp (IBM).

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