Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
Blockchain and cryptocurrency news and analysis by David Gerard
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!
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!
Requiring a particular deep implementation is bad — and especially because of unrealisable hype.
Business students are actively seeking out courses on “blockchain.” This one is very optimistic — and leaves its students susceptlble to the hype.
Advancing the cause of DRMed JPEGs with a bit of applied blockchain.
The slapstick comedy horror saga of a plucky little blockchain startup who aren’t quite ready for every state-level hacker in the world, or more than eleven voters.
I particularly commend the James Mickens video.
eMusic’s plan: 1. Collect a large pile of money. 2. Write an all-new music platform that does everything! 3. Pay people in eMusic magic beans. This has a number of flaws.
The text of of my article “Approach Blockchain with Caution,” from last week’s City A.M.
Today’s post is in this morning’s City A.M. — with Scared Business Guy versus BlockBot.