How many people are using blockchain solutions now, and what can we expect from the future?

1. Limitations + Obstacles

2. Why use blockchain?
• Decentralization
• Immutabilty
• Transparency & Trust
• Fast & Cheap Transactions
• User Controlled Networks

3. How many users right now?
No one knows for sure - we can only guess!

4. Stats
• Market Dominance: Bitcoin 43%, Ethereum 16%
• Ethereum - 10-25 million? Active Addresses - 550,000
• Bitcoin - 10-20 million? Active Addresses - 475,000
• Dapps - Laughably small!
• Coinbase - 20 million accounts
• Binance - 8 million accounts

10. Who is using blockchain?
• Typical User - Male, Millenial, College+ Education,
International

12. Interacting with blockchain
• Crypto Exchanges (Centralised and Decentralised)
• Wallets - hardware (eg. Ledger, Trezor) + software (Metamask, online portals,
apps)
• Payments (Bitcoin, Monero, Ripple, OmiseGO)
• Social Media (Steemit, Peepeth)
• Bounties (Gitcoin, Cent, Bounty0x)
• Gaming/Entertainment (Cryptokitties, CryptoCup, DeusETH, SpankChain,
Funfair, Fomo3D, OneToken)
• Finance (Cards - Monaco/TenX/TokenCard, Lending - ETHLend, Investing -
Dropil/Veritaseum)
• Browsing (Brave, Cipher/Toshi, SIRINLABS)
• Identity (Civic, uPort)

14. Limitations + Obstacles
• Scalability
• Security
• Regulation
• Centralization
• UI/UX
• Perceptions
• Quantum Computing?

15. Further Reading
• https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/12/11/5-big-advantages-of-blockchain-and-1-reason-to-be.aspx
• https://www.ccn.com/exponential-growth-number-bitcoin-users-reach-200-million-2024/
• https://www.trustnodes.com/2018/05/30/ethereum-now-35-million-unique-addresses-surpasses-bitcoin-active-
addresses
• https://www.ccn.com/exponential-growth-number-bitcoin-users-reach-200-million-2024/
• https://medium.com/@mccannatron/12-graphs-that-show-just-how-early-the-cryptocurrency-market-is-
653a4b8b2720
• https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-numbers-21-statistics-reveal-growing-demand-cryptocurrency/
• https://www.coindesk.com/coindesk-releases-2018-bitcoin-blockchain-industry-report/
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-24/a-look-at-who-owns-bitcoin-young-men-and-why-lack-of-
trust?
• https://think.ing.com/uploads/reports/ING_International_Survey_Mobile_Banking_2018.pdf
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/03/23/who-is-buying-bitcoin-and-cryptocurrencies/#6df4d4254aae
• https://cointelegraph.com/news/blockchain-for-babyboomers-what-stops-older-generation-from-using-bitcoin
• https://medium.com/@matteozago/50-examples-of-how-blockchains-are-taking-over-the-world-4276bf488a4b
• https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/bitcoin-blockchain-issues/18019/

16. The State of Usability & Adoption -
Panel
Makoto Inoue - ENS.Domains + NoBlockNo.Party / @makoto_inoue
Elly Zhang - Tokencard.io / @cryptovenus
Max Lomuscio - DOVU.io / @dovuofficial
Francisco Cordoba - SendProtocol.com / @sendprotocol
Raphael Mazet - Alice.si / @raph_alice
Moderator - Jon Wooddin, Trivial.co + Altcoins.Racing / @trivial_co