bima blockchain breakfast briefing | dave hrycyszyn presentation | head london
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Blockchains: what’s the big deal?
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People trust the transaction security. Why?
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The blockchain: a road test
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Works even under immensely hostile conditions
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The blockchain: a road test
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There are now more blockchains to choose from
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, but also
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• Startup • Supply chain tracking • Uses Ethereum
provenance.org
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The other large-scale example
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• Started after the DigiNotar hacker(s) hacked a CA and issued a wildcard SSL cert for Google
• Securing the internet’s encryption infrastructure using blockchain technology (actually Merkle trees, but whatever)
• https://www.certificate-transparency.org/
Certificate transparency
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Proof-of-concepts and investigations
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• A digital currency back-end for use by central banks
• PoC for the Bank of England by George Danezis and Sarah Meiklejohn
• Peer-reviewed paper at http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.06895
• Code available on Github at https://github.com/gdanezis/rscoin
RsCoin
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• Builds on work done for the Bank of England
• Blockchains using normal languages, REST APIs
• We’re working to open source and set it up so others can use it
Chainspace.io
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