12. Traceability
The 2018 forecast revenue for the top
ten global pharmaceutical companies
is $355 billion.
The saleable returns market at 2–3% of
total sales is 7–10 billion.
26. A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online
payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going
through a financial institution. Digital signatures provide part of the
solution, but the main benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still
required to prevent double-spending. The network timestamps
transactions by hashing them into an ongoing chain of hash-based
proof-of-work, forming a record that cannot be changed without
redoing the proof-of-work.
Satoshi Nakamoto
Bitcoin - Whitepaper
Editor's Notes
1996 Dr. Brent Townshend invented the 56K dial-up modem
Shortly after that lots of ‘Internet Companies’ started to appear – if you had a website you called yourself an Internet Company
1998 ISP
Time-stamped records ..
Time-stamped records ..
‘ FAT Protocol’ term created by Joel Monegro, Union Square Ventures Blog, August 2016
ICO Total 2017: $6.5b+
2018: $20b+
Drug & Healthcare 2017: $118MM 2018 $330MM
1.7% into drug and healthcare
i.e ‘BlockCerts’ - https://www.blockcerts.org
Credly – API
OpenBadges
Intel
IBM
World Health Organization (WHO)
International Policy Network up to 700,000 people die each year due to counterfeit malaria and tuberculosis drugs.
Smart contracts allow the performance of credible transactions without third parties.
Smart contracts were first proposed by Nick Szabo, who coined the term, in 1994.
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Smart contracts allow the performance of credible transactions without third parties.
Smart contracts were first proposed by Nick Szabo, who coined the term, in 1994.
Claims processing.
An oracle is an agent that finds and verifies real-world occurrences and submits this information to a blockchain to be used by smart contracts.
TYPES: Software; Hardware; Inbound; Outbound
AirBnb: 9,000 employees
Uber: 12,000 employees
cryptocurrencies include Zcash, Dash, Monero and Bitcoin Cash
cryptocurrencies include Zcash, Dash, Monero and Bitcoin Cash
- bitcoin was not the first virtual currency
- bitcoin was not the first cryptographic currency
First cryptographic currency : DigiCash in 1989
bitcoin first decentralized cryptocurrency
Bitcoin whitepaper does not mention ‘blockchain’ – just like Tim Berners-Lee did not mention ‘world wide web’ when creating HTML
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