Outline

• Bitcoin Origins and History
• What is the blockchain?
• What is mining?
• Pseudonymity
• Bitcoin and the Blockchain
• Why you should care, today

Weaknesses

• ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
• it works. today. right now...sort of
• global reach...even evildoers in our midst
• "immutable" ledger...but "immutable"
• objective inference...but it's all public
• pseudonymous...but evildoers

Pseudonymity

Bitcoin is almost anonymous

but http://zerocash-project.org is anonymous

Applications

Rights & Access

• Media - Ujo Music

• Rent/Share Property - Slock.it

• Vunk - Free My Vunk

Payment System

• Basic money transfer
• Remittance
• MicroTransactions - ChangeTip

• Currency - Purse.io/Amazon

• Currency - OpenBazaar

• Gift Cards - Gyft

Identity

• Airbitz Edge Security

• YubiID

Historical Record

• Marriage - Hudson Jameson

• Prestige - King of the Ether

• Journalism and Social Media - Steemit

Tokenizing

• The Bitcoin Experience - kotoken

• Loyalty Points - hotelblockchain

• Energy - TransActive Grid

• Property - Smart Property

Decentralized Governance

• Crowdfunding - WeiFund

• Crowdfunding - TheDAO

• Corporate - Boardroom

• Sharing Economy - INFLEKT

Transparent Resolution

• Prediction Market - Augur

• Prediction Market - GroupGnosis

• General Marketplace- SafeMarket

• Hash Cracker - Firecracker

• Supply Chain - EximChain

Random Number Generator

• Gambling - Satoshi Dice

Malicious Applications

“There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.”

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone