My back-to-basics “what actually is a blockchain?” talk, tuned to market researchers. The Q&A at the end was good too.
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“A giant shared but segmented database, with the word ‘blockchain’ stuck on it.” All on the IBM Cloud.
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In a survey of 1000 US investors, none — actually zero — thought owning Bitcoin was a good idea.
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Bitfinex’s banking arrangements are fine — so long as you don’t try to get your money out.
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“I AM Satoshi” — Craig S. Wright, 3 November 2018.
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A talk for the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway. A basic overview of the engineering and computer science problems of blockchain and smart contract promises. On video!
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The Royal Institution is running a blockchain panel, Blockchain: Hope Or Hype? with me as last-second drop-in moderator. Speakers are John Domingue of the Knowledge Media Institute at the Open University, and Sajida Zouarhi from Consensys. Come along and ask pointed questions!
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Requiring a particular deep implementation is bad — and especially because of unrealisable hype.
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Business students are actively seeking out courses on “blockchain.” This one is very optimistic — and leaves its students susceptlble to the hype.
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Advancing the cause of DRMed JPEGs with a bit of applied blockchain.
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