Andreas Park PRO
Professor of Finance at UofT
Source: "Unlocking the human opportunity: Future-proof skills to move financial services forward"; PwC report for the Toronto Financial Services Alliance, April 2018
Source: blockchain.info 25/02/2018
Source: etherscan.io 25/02/2018
Miners
have a huge say over changes in the protocol, and
they can collectively block changes, force forks, etc., and
have incentives that may run counter to the common good
Root Problem
Solutions
Source: bitinfocharts
S=1M
S'=8M
p
p'
demand=supply
revenue maximizing S*:
Empirical question:
1M vs 8M: which has higher revenue?
Root Problem
Solutions
https://blog.stephantual.com/what-are-state-channels-32a81f7accab
Root Problem
Solution
Where to add a new block B7?
My personal problem: I have not yet seen a convincing theoretical model of PoS
Root problem
Solutions
Terminology
Let's discuss it!
Common Idea:
Advantages
Description Idea:
Basic idea
Features
Premise
transaction bridge supported by validator votes
votes ("signatures") get stored on Ethereum
transaction bridge supported by validator votes; get paid in AION tokens
Special Features:
What is Hyperledger?
What is Sawtooth?
What is PoET?
My understanding (vastly simplistic)
Key roles
Key feature
My take:
(website)
e.g. AWS Ruby
(decentralized)
(call to smart contract)
By Andreas Park