{"id":6384,"date":"2018-04-19T14:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=6384"},"modified":"2022-02-23T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T23:30:00","slug":"welcome-to-the-blockchain-slides-from-berenbergs-blockchain-from-hype-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2018\/04\/19\/welcome-to-the-blockchain-slides-from-berenbergs-blockchain-from-hype-to-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"“Welcome to the Blockchain”: my slides from Berenberg’s “Blockchain: From Hype To Reality”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve just done a talk at Berenberg’s “Blockchain: From Hype To Reality”<\/a> conference \u2014 here’s the programme.<\/a> The audience was bankers, large investors and blockchain industry people \u2014 smart non-techies.<\/p>\n

Every time I talk anywhere, people come up and ask me afterwards: “Um … what actually is<\/em> a blockchain?” They presume everyone else knows, and it’s just them! So I figured the basics were in order.<\/p>\n

Here are my slides<\/a> (PDF, 986 kB). I explain the blockchain data structure (SPOILER: it’s a 1979 model Merkle tree<\/a>), why Bitcoin fans are like they are, and blockchain use cases in business.<\/p>\n

This talk’s 30 minutes nominal, 25 minutes speed-run, and was 39 minutes today from a GDPR<\/a> digression responding to blockchain identity<\/a> discussions from other speakers. The phrase “Cambridge Analytica, but on the blockchain” got the right response.<\/p>\n

Here’s the ECB\/BOJ RTGS report<\/a> I mention therein. Here’s the World Food Programme’s single-user “blockchain.”<\/a><\/p>\n

I also have longer versions of this talk \u2014 I’m available for engagements!<\/p>\n

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I did a talk today \u2014 here’s the slides. Explaining blockchains, why Bitcoin fans are like they are, and blockchain use cases in business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[600,21,74,2748],"class_list":["post-6384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-berenberg","tag-bitcoin","tag-blockchain","tag-talk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6384"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9916,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384\/revisions\/9916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}