BlockchainNavigating this Game-Changing Technology

Conor Svensson @conors10

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Blockchain technologies

2008

2013

2014

2015+

Distributed Ledger Technology

• Smart Contracts

• Public and private

• Consensus mechanisms

The ones to watch

Use cases• Smart contracts

• Sharing interorganisational data

• Digital asset registry

• Identity management

• IoT device data

Considerations

• Public or private?

• Wallet security

• Cross chain interoperability

• Blockchain skills shortage

Practicalities• Rapidly changing

• Limited scalability

• Network stability

• Immature tooling

• New architectural paradigms

Recommendations

• Still in PoC phase

• Watch the leaders

• Private chain if possible

The future

• Consolidation

• Security

• Public & private

• Interoperability

Questions?

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