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Blockchain. How to describe it to your grandmother!. Mehran Davoudi http://mehrandvd.me @mehrandvd. As a part of series at. The Journey Overview. The 5 th disruptive computing paradigm. Bitcoin History. http://historyofbitcoin.org/. Growth. Price. Transactions (logarithmic scale).
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Blockchain How to describe it to your grandmother! Mehran Davoudi http://mehrandvd.me @mehrandvd
BitcoinHistory http://historyofbitcoin.org/
Growth Price Transactions (logarithmic scale) https://www.blockchain.com/charts
How Bitcoin works? Bitcoin as a money, as a gold
Semi-Bitcoin: Miners Computers and algorithms to find such a number.
Semi-Bitcoin: Earning and Spending • People should accept to earn these numbers for their works, services and … • People should be able to spend these numbers to buy services or products.
Mainstream Adoption • Too complicated for mainstream adoption: • Same was true for the Internet, Not necessary to know how TCP/IP works • 32-character public key is not easy to use as a public address. • Circle Internet Financial and Xapo: Gmail of Bitcoin
Byzantine’s General problem • Double-Spend problem resolved by blockchain
Decentralized Nature It is decentralized by design, that’s what we call the Blockchain
Proof of Work Who can change the entire blockchain?
Blockchain as an infrastructure At 2010 a communication from Satoshi Nakamoto: The design supports a tremendous variety of possible transaction types that I designed years ago.
Blockchain 2.0 • DApp: Decentralized Applications • DAO: Decentralized Autonomous Organizations • DAC: Decentralized Autonomous Corporations • To transfer of many other kinds of assets beyond currency.
Storj • Decentralized cloud storage platform • Completed a $461,802 crowdfunding in 2014 • Enable users to rent out their unused hard disk space and store heir files on the Storj network.
Automatic Tradenets • Self-operating, self-owned assets: • Self-driving car, self-owning car
Melk Radar • Aggregation of all estates from online vendors: Divar, Sheypour, Hamshahri, … • Real estates do not trust each other, so multi-level transactions can not be made. • A transaction could have different stakeholders with trusted portions of profit.
Everything is like Economy • Every system in life, is economic to some degree • Systems and interactions: • Awareness and discovery • Value attribution • Potential interaction and exchange
Distributed Censorship-Resistant • No comment!
Namecoin • Alternative to verify DNS registrations • URLs permanently embedded in blockchain would be resistant to the government seizing of domains. • Top-level domains are being controlled by centralized authorities. • United States controls .comURLs. • Top-level domain for Namecoin is .bit
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