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Introducing FlureeDB, The World's First ACID-Compliant Blockchain Database
Brian Platz introduces FlureeDB, a graph-style database for building blockchain applications.
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Introduction to Blockchain Technology and Ethereum
Laurence Kirk introduces blockchain and Ethereum, the most popular blockchain framework.
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Smart Contracts Are Neither Smart Nor Contracts … So What Are They?
Christopher Gilbert discusses blockchain, trying to go beyond the hype and explaining what it is and how it can solve real-life problems.
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Distributed Ledgers: Anonymity and Immutability at Scale
Eleanor McHugh discusses distributed ledgers, what they are, what they are useful for and the privacy concerns they raise.
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Digital Assets: Lessons in Securing What’s Next
Rob Witoff recaps on the past several years at the largest cryptocurrency company in the world and explores technical infrastructure and security lessons learned that apply to what’s next in Fintech.
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Unifying Banks & Blockchains @Coinbase
Jim Posen talks about blockchain protocols used by Coinbase, detailing Coinbase’s Bitcoin, Ethereum, and US banking integrations and comparing how they implement the generalized service interface.
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Blockchain: The Oracle Problems
Paul Sztorc talks about why the oracle problem is so hard (the historical evolution of failures, why they fail), and the basics of blockchain ("blockchain as immortal software", ledger "rents").
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Case Study: Alternate Blockchains
Jeremy Rand talks about Namecoin and Monero, the advantages to alternate blockchains, and risks of using chains that are not as secured or are merge mined.
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Practical Blockchains: Building on Bitcoin
Peter Todd answers the questions: why use Bitcoin over other blockchains, what is safe, future proof ways to peg data to Bitcoin's blockchain and what is Bitcoin script, and how it can be used.
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Practical Cryptography & Blockchain Panel
The panel discusses the most important trends involving the blockchain today and fields questions from the audience. Topics covered: smart contracts, oracles, sidechains, and blockchains.
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Banking from the Future: Cryptocurrency Key Storage
Olaf Carlson-Wee examines various novel cryptosystems used to facilitate the secure storage of billions of dollars in global crypto banks.
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Bitcoin Security: 1/10th Cent to a Billion Dollars
Olaf Carlson-Wee explores micropayment and wealth storage use cases for bitcoin and examines cryptosystems used to facilitate micro-penny payments and secure $B in global bitcoin banks.
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