This was first presented on July 20, 2015 at Infosys in Mysore, India with the Blockchain University team. Additional references and citations are in the notes section.
Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Squeezing utility from a proof-of-work experimentTim Swanson
[Note: references and citations can be found in the notes section of the slides]
First presented at the R3 Cryptocurrency Round Table on December 11, 2014 in Palo Alto. Covers "Bitcoin 2.0" ideas including alternative consensus mechanisms, costs of operating decentralized ledgers, use-cases for these new ledgers within existing financial institutions and potential hurdles including disproportional rewards.
Future Opportunities and Economic Challenges for Cryptoledgers: Trends and sp...Tim Swanson
[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyuCJkLF2Jo ]
[Paper: http://www.ofnumbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Bitcoins-Public-Goods-hurdles.pdf ]
Presentation given at the Institute for the Future on March 27, 2014. Note: there are numerous footnotes containing additional quotes and references of each slide. It covers the technical and economic limitations of Bitcoin in its current state, the financial incentives for operating a mining pool, the financial incentives for working as a developer and the various public goods issues surrounding a communal effort including special interest groups and lobbying.
By the numbers: understanding value transfers to and from ChinaTim Swanson
This presentation is based on a combination of research for Melotic, for SKBI in Singapore and for the "Blockchain Global Impact" Stanford conference held in March 2015.
The question that led to the market research was, "Can blockchains positively impact areas such as remittances?"
References and citations can be found in the notes of each slide.
Unbundling Of Financial Services: The Blockchain(s) RevolutionGeorge Samuel Samman
This is a deck which talks about blockchain(s) and their use cases, It is based off of some o the best thought in the space and looks at why banking and financial services will be changed.
Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Squeezing utility from a proof-of-work experimentTim Swanson
[Note: references and citations can be found in the notes section of the slides]
First presented at the R3 Cryptocurrency Round Table on December 11, 2014 in Palo Alto. Covers "Bitcoin 2.0" ideas including alternative consensus mechanisms, costs of operating decentralized ledgers, use-cases for these new ledgers within existing financial institutions and potential hurdles including disproportional rewards.
Future Opportunities and Economic Challenges for Cryptoledgers: Trends and sp...Tim Swanson
[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyuCJkLF2Jo ]
[Paper: http://www.ofnumbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Bitcoins-Public-Goods-hurdles.pdf ]
Presentation given at the Institute for the Future on March 27, 2014. Note: there are numerous footnotes containing additional quotes and references of each slide. It covers the technical and economic limitations of Bitcoin in its current state, the financial incentives for operating a mining pool, the financial incentives for working as a developer and the various public goods issues surrounding a communal effort including special interest groups and lobbying.
By the numbers: understanding value transfers to and from ChinaTim Swanson
This presentation is based on a combination of research for Melotic, for SKBI in Singapore and for the "Blockchain Global Impact" Stanford conference held in March 2015.
The question that led to the market research was, "Can blockchains positively impact areas such as remittances?"
References and citations can be found in the notes of each slide.
Unbundling Of Financial Services: The Blockchain(s) RevolutionGeorge Samuel Samman
This is a deck which talks about blockchain(s) and their use cases, It is based off of some o the best thought in the space and looks at why banking and financial services will be changed.
Cryptocurrencies: The Mechanics Economic and FinanceErnie Teo
Presented at the INAUGURAL CAIA-SKBI CRYPTOCURRENCY CONFERENCE 2014 on 04 November 2014 held at the Singapore Management University
This talk gives a general overview of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
Evaluating the potential of blockchain technology to radically transform business
[Feel free to download the presentation if you'd like to view it offline]
[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZrwIlB6SVA ]
[Paper: http://www.ofnumbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Learning-from-Bitcoins-past.pdf ]
Tim Swanson discusses sidechains, merged mining, blockchain 2.0, bitcoin information security. bitcoin thefts and potential use-cases for the network. First presented at Stanford on April 28, 2014 for the Symbolic Systems 150 course. Citations and references in the notes section. More information at: www.ofnumbers.com
Originally presented on November 5, 2014 at the Inaugural CAIA-SKBI Cryptocurrency Conference 2014 hosted at Singapore Management University: http://skbi.smu.edu.sg/conference/111726?itemid=5806
Citations and references found in the notes of each slide.
Abstract:
With nearly six years of empirical data and use-cases behind the Nakamoto consensus method the community has observed that a cryptocurrency economy behaves differently than originally envisioned and intended. What has arisen from these half-a-decade of physical interactions is a nearly complete rollback of the primary attributes embodied within the first of these Nakamoto consensus protocols, Bitcoin – to the point where it may best to refer to it as Bitcoin-in-name-only (BINO). Consequently there are two other challenges within this existing BINO framework: (1) the diametrically opposed forces of speculative demand versus transactional demand; (2) decoupling coins from the ledger altogether. This presentation discusses several proposed solutions to the challenges currently being devised by a multitude of teams.
Everything you've been told about blockchains is wrong: the "killer app" isn't any particular implementation, but the database design itself. In this presentation I explain how the permissioned blockchain design pioneered by Eris Industries actually addresses the problems and use-cases everyone's said blockchains can solve, but hasn't actually used them to solve.
Hint: it's not because of "decentralisation."
Economics of Decentalized Currency SystemsErnie Teo
This presentation examines the justifications for a decentralized currency system, looking at the main beneficiaries of such a system and comparing it to a centralized currency. Next, the Byzantine General’s Problem will be discussed from a game theoretical perspective. We will look at how various solutions such as mining protocols (such as proof of work and proof of stake like Bitcoin) and consensus protocols (like Ripple and Hyperledger), attempts to tackle the problem. The talk will conclude by comparing between the Ripple and Bitcoin systems, looking at the pros and cons, and the participation incentives of nodes.
Presentation for Asian Financial Markets and Institutions, October 2016, HKU MBA Program. Covers basics of blockchain and distributed ledgers and discusses some current and potential applications.
The Continued Existence of Altcoins, Appcoins and Commodity coinsTim Swanson
[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBuwc3yu6sI]
Tim Swanson discusses altcoins, appcoins, commodity coins, bitcoin 2.0, future protocols, legal and technical challenges and opportunities for developers and the economic incentives for why coins are created. First presented at Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale on September 23, 2014 for the Bitcoin Meetup. Citations and references in the notes section. More information at: www.ofnumbers.com
1 Blockchain needs a native digital asset such as bitcoin;
2 Bitcoin is digital gold and can be as relevant as physical gold for the history of money, finance, and civilization
3 Unrealistic expectations arise from distributed ledger hype: no reference implementation has emerged yet
4 Instant settlement, cash on the ledger, shared data set, and improved automation are not easy to obtain
5 Time-stamping and anchoring are promising applications
6 Hardly disruptive, DLT might be evolutionary DB tech
FirstPartner's 2016 Blockchain Ecosystem Market Map helps to decrypt the blockchain landscape with a visual overview of the emerging ecosystem, players, technologies and trends. It clearly summarises three main areas of focus emerging around the core blockchain or distributed ledger protocols:
1) Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies: Providing an alternative to centrally managed "fiat" currencies, this sector includes Bitcoin exchanges, Bitcoin wallets, miners and cryptocurrency payment processors. The map illustrates how these companies interact and features some leading players including Coinbase, Circle, Kraken and 21 Inc.
2) The Financial Services Blockchain: This has been the main area of focus over the last 12 months as attention shifts from Bitcoin to Financial Services applications. An increasing number of players are focussing on commercialising blockchain technologies for banks, securities, derivatives and asset markets and institutional investors - and are attracting VC funding to do so. Ripple and Ethereum are leading candidate protocols for payment processing and smart contracts and players including Ripple, Chain and Digital Asset Holdings are gaining traction with Financial Institutions. The Map highlights leading technology companies and some of the banks, card schemes and processors who are investing in or evaluating distributed ledger technologies.
3) Other Use Cases: The distributed ledger concept and its ability to support transparent and tamper-proof asset registration, proof of ownership and asset transfer transactions makes it potentially applicable to multiple non financial use cases. The Map highlights a number of candidate use cases including publishing, legal, distributed data storage, document management and IoT. Some of the pioneering initiatives and companies exploring these applications are included.
Crucially the Map also provides a clear pictorial explanation and summary of the leading protocols at the heart of the ecosystem and concepts including coloured coins and smart contracts that supplement them to make a number of the proposed services possible.
A printable version of the map can be downloaded from www.firstpartner.net.
The distributed ledger technology that started with bitcoin is rapidly becoming a crowdsourced system for all types of verification. Could it replace notary publics, manual vote recounts, and the way banks manage transactions?
Bitcoin Protocols 1.0 and 2.0 Explained in the Series: Blockchain: The Inform...Melanie Swan
We should think about the blockchain as another class of thing like the Internet – a comprehensive information technology with tiered technical levels and multiple classes of applications for any form of asset registry, inventory, and exchange, including every area of finance, economics, and money; hard assets (physical property); and intangible assets (votes, ideas, reputation, intention, health data, information, etc.). In fact the blockchain concept is even more, it is a new organizing paradigm.
– Melanie Swan, Founder, Institute for Blockchain Studies
Distributed Ledger Technology as Financial Market InfrastructureTim Swanson
Keynote first presented at "The Future of Financial Payment Services Driven by Technology Innovation" on November 22, 2016 from Korea Finance Telecommunications & Clearings Institute (KFTC) 30th Anniversary Seminar in Seoul, South Korea.
First presented on June 27, 2015 for Blockchain University hosted at PricewaterhouseCoopers in San Francisco. [Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-OxnJip-bA ] Additional notes, references and citations are in the comments of each slide. I would like to thank Arthur Breitman, Richard Brown, Alexandre Callea, Pinar Emirdag, Andrew Geyl, Dave Hudson, Hyder Jaffrey, Yakov Kofner, Antony Lewis, Todd McDonald, Piotr Piasecki, Robert Sams and John Whelan for their feedback.
Cryptocurrencies: The Mechanics Economic and FinanceErnie Teo
Presented at the INAUGURAL CAIA-SKBI CRYPTOCURRENCY CONFERENCE 2014 on 04 November 2014 held at the Singapore Management University
This talk gives a general overview of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
Evaluating the potential of blockchain technology to radically transform business
[Feel free to download the presentation if you'd like to view it offline]
[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZrwIlB6SVA ]
[Paper: http://www.ofnumbers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Learning-from-Bitcoins-past.pdf ]
Tim Swanson discusses sidechains, merged mining, blockchain 2.0, bitcoin information security. bitcoin thefts and potential use-cases for the network. First presented at Stanford on April 28, 2014 for the Symbolic Systems 150 course. Citations and references in the notes section. More information at: www.ofnumbers.com
Originally presented on November 5, 2014 at the Inaugural CAIA-SKBI Cryptocurrency Conference 2014 hosted at Singapore Management University: http://skbi.smu.edu.sg/conference/111726?itemid=5806
Citations and references found in the notes of each slide.
Abstract:
With nearly six years of empirical data and use-cases behind the Nakamoto consensus method the community has observed that a cryptocurrency economy behaves differently than originally envisioned and intended. What has arisen from these half-a-decade of physical interactions is a nearly complete rollback of the primary attributes embodied within the first of these Nakamoto consensus protocols, Bitcoin – to the point where it may best to refer to it as Bitcoin-in-name-only (BINO). Consequently there are two other challenges within this existing BINO framework: (1) the diametrically opposed forces of speculative demand versus transactional demand; (2) decoupling coins from the ledger altogether. This presentation discusses several proposed solutions to the challenges currently being devised by a multitude of teams.
Everything you've been told about blockchains is wrong: the "killer app" isn't any particular implementation, but the database design itself. In this presentation I explain how the permissioned blockchain design pioneered by Eris Industries actually addresses the problems and use-cases everyone's said blockchains can solve, but hasn't actually used them to solve.
Hint: it's not because of "decentralisation."
Economics of Decentalized Currency SystemsErnie Teo
This presentation examines the justifications for a decentralized currency system, looking at the main beneficiaries of such a system and comparing it to a centralized currency. Next, the Byzantine General’s Problem will be discussed from a game theoretical perspective. We will look at how various solutions such as mining protocols (such as proof of work and proof of stake like Bitcoin) and consensus protocols (like Ripple and Hyperledger), attempts to tackle the problem. The talk will conclude by comparing between the Ripple and Bitcoin systems, looking at the pros and cons, and the participation incentives of nodes.
Presentation for Asian Financial Markets and Institutions, October 2016, HKU MBA Program. Covers basics of blockchain and distributed ledgers and discusses some current and potential applications.
The Continued Existence of Altcoins, Appcoins and Commodity coinsTim Swanson
[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBuwc3yu6sI]
Tim Swanson discusses altcoins, appcoins, commodity coins, bitcoin 2.0, future protocols, legal and technical challenges and opportunities for developers and the economic incentives for why coins are created. First presented at Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale on September 23, 2014 for the Bitcoin Meetup. Citations and references in the notes section. More information at: www.ofnumbers.com
1 Blockchain needs a native digital asset such as bitcoin;
2 Bitcoin is digital gold and can be as relevant as physical gold for the history of money, finance, and civilization
3 Unrealistic expectations arise from distributed ledger hype: no reference implementation has emerged yet
4 Instant settlement, cash on the ledger, shared data set, and improved automation are not easy to obtain
5 Time-stamping and anchoring are promising applications
6 Hardly disruptive, DLT might be evolutionary DB tech
FirstPartner's 2016 Blockchain Ecosystem Market Map helps to decrypt the blockchain landscape with a visual overview of the emerging ecosystem, players, technologies and trends. It clearly summarises three main areas of focus emerging around the core blockchain or distributed ledger protocols:
1) Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies: Providing an alternative to centrally managed "fiat" currencies, this sector includes Bitcoin exchanges, Bitcoin wallets, miners and cryptocurrency payment processors. The map illustrates how these companies interact and features some leading players including Coinbase, Circle, Kraken and 21 Inc.
2) The Financial Services Blockchain: This has been the main area of focus over the last 12 months as attention shifts from Bitcoin to Financial Services applications. An increasing number of players are focussing on commercialising blockchain technologies for banks, securities, derivatives and asset markets and institutional investors - and are attracting VC funding to do so. Ripple and Ethereum are leading candidate protocols for payment processing and smart contracts and players including Ripple, Chain and Digital Asset Holdings are gaining traction with Financial Institutions. The Map highlights leading technology companies and some of the banks, card schemes and processors who are investing in or evaluating distributed ledger technologies.
3) Other Use Cases: The distributed ledger concept and its ability to support transparent and tamper-proof asset registration, proof of ownership and asset transfer transactions makes it potentially applicable to multiple non financial use cases. The Map highlights a number of candidate use cases including publishing, legal, distributed data storage, document management and IoT. Some of the pioneering initiatives and companies exploring these applications are included.
Crucially the Map also provides a clear pictorial explanation and summary of the leading protocols at the heart of the ecosystem and concepts including coloured coins and smart contracts that supplement them to make a number of the proposed services possible.
A printable version of the map can be downloaded from www.firstpartner.net.
The distributed ledger technology that started with bitcoin is rapidly becoming a crowdsourced system for all types of verification. Could it replace notary publics, manual vote recounts, and the way banks manage transactions?
Bitcoin Protocols 1.0 and 2.0 Explained in the Series: Blockchain: The Inform...Melanie Swan
We should think about the blockchain as another class of thing like the Internet – a comprehensive information technology with tiered technical levels and multiple classes of applications for any form of asset registry, inventory, and exchange, including every area of finance, economics, and money; hard assets (physical property); and intangible assets (votes, ideas, reputation, intention, health data, information, etc.). In fact the blockchain concept is even more, it is a new organizing paradigm.
– Melanie Swan, Founder, Institute for Blockchain Studies
Distributed Ledger Technology as Financial Market InfrastructureTim Swanson
Keynote first presented at "The Future of Financial Payment Services Driven by Technology Innovation" on November 22, 2016 from Korea Finance Telecommunications & Clearings Institute (KFTC) 30th Anniversary Seminar in Seoul, South Korea.
First presented on June 27, 2015 for Blockchain University hosted at PricewaterhouseCoopers in San Francisco. [Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-OxnJip-bA ] Additional notes, references and citations are in the comments of each slide. I would like to thank Arthur Breitman, Richard Brown, Alexandre Callea, Pinar Emirdag, Andrew Geyl, Dave Hudson, Hyder Jaffrey, Yakov Kofner, Antony Lewis, Todd McDonald, Piotr Piasecki, Robert Sams and John Whelan for their feedback.
The tech landscape surrounding distributed ledgersTim Swanson
This is an abbreviated presentation based on R3CEV research first publicly shown at the Gaiax – Blockchain University event “Blockchain Summit” held in Tokyo on December 18, 2015: http://gaiax-blockchain.com
All citations and references can be found here: http://www.ofnumbers.com/2015/12/19/the-evolving-distributed-ledger-tech-landscape/
Copyright R3CEV 2015 All Rights Reserved
Buckets of Permissioned, Permissionless, and Permissioned Permissionlessness ...Tim Swanson
This was first presented on July 20, 2015 at Infosys in Mysore, India with the Blockchain University team. It is a heavily modified version of a previous presentation covering the distributed ledger landscape. All citations and references can be found in the notes.
WSO2Con USA 2017: Keynote - The Blockchain’s Digital DisruptionWSO2
Almost a decade ago, little-known open-source cryptocurrency called Bitcoin made its debut with little fanfare. Its underlying technological innovation has now caught the world’s attention; developers, startups, corporations, academic institutions, and governments are all examining what blockchain technology can solve. Currency, assets, identity, trade settlement, cross-border payments, privacy and regulation are areas being explored. This session will explore the past, present, and future of blockchain technology and how it may influence your business.
Bitcoin and Blockchain Explained: Cryptocitizen Smartnetwork Trust Melanie Swan
Blockchain technology is not just about cryptocurrencies, registering wills and IP on blockchains, and bank transfers taking less than 3 days to settle, philosophically blockchains invite a new level of thinking about the sensibility of the Cryptocitizen and possibilities for societal shared trust
Restribute ~ Wealth re-distirbution by blockchain hardfork ~ Tomoaki Sato
After the DAO hardfork Ethereum has 2 networks, Ethereum and Ethereum classic.
By seeing the fact, Gini index can be decreased by blockchain hardfork.
Re-distribution can be good even for people who have wealth in some blockchain protocol, because it increases engagement, and bring more network value to the blockchain.
This is not only company /project level, also can be used for governmental level to do democratic re-distribution of wealth not by centralized authority.
CES 2017 FinTech trend: Blockchain Technologie by Mark Mueller-Eberstein, Ad...Mark Mueller-Eberstein
CES presentation on Blockchain Technology and why China is well on the way to leverage the innovation potential ( #CES2017) by Mark Mueller-Eberstein (Advisor to CXOs and CEO of Adgetec).
CES 2017 FinTech trend: Blockchain Technology by Mark Mueller-Eberstein, AdgetecMark Mueller-Eberstein
Trend you can't miss at #CES2017 in Las Vegas.
Mark Mueller-Eberstein (Advisor to CXOs and CEO of Adgetec), explains how blockchain technology is changing not only #FinTech, but broader industry and why #China has a special opportunity for success leveraging the innovation.
Help a non-technical audience to under what shared ledgers are and that the Bitcoin blockchain is only one kind of shared ledger. It includes the YouTube video me presenting at the beginnng.
A few people asked if they could have a copy of my introduction to the Money 2020 Identity Workshop, so here it is. I hope I set the scene well for my excellent speakers and panelists.
Presentation to the Dutch National Bitcoin Congress, June 2015. Includes five examples of new businesses on the blockchain which the audience at the event voted for in increasing order of plausibility.
A discussion about identity and the internet of things, exploring some ideas about the connection between IoT and the blockchain. An edited version of the presentation I gave at TechDaysMunich in July 2016.
Presentation to the European Payment Summit 2017. My bold claim that shared ledgers are a regtech not a fintech. It's all to do with ambient accountability.
Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies Intro - July 2017🔗Audrey Chaing
An overview of blockchain, cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, Ethereum, ICOs. Meant to be introductory level but provide a slightly higher level of detail. Includes some companies to watch in the blockchain space. Prepared before the August 1 fork, which did occur.
Presentation Titled " Bitcoin and Ransomware Analysis " we discuss ransomware and how bitcoin are being utlized in cyber crime. we also have look at Bitcoin mining, Bitcoin trading market and block chain concept.
In the presentation Titled " Bitcoin and Ransomware Analysis " we discuss ransomware and how bitcoin are being utlised in cyber crime. we also have look at Bitcoin mining, trading and block chain concept.
Sunstone Capital, Avalanche 2014 - Bitcoin: Primer, State of Play, DiscussionYacine Ghalim
Every winter, Sunstone hosts an offsite event with the participation of executives from our portfolio companies, fellow VCs, and various thought leaders.
The event is designed to mix informal networking, stimulating discussions around key topics shaping our industry, and intense skiing. We find that the best inspiration and ideas are generated when you least expect it, and in company with people that challenge your thinking.
This year's edition took us to Courmayeur in the Italian Alps, and Bitcoin was on the list of topics we discussed. Here are the supporting slides from our Jan 24th presentation "Bitcoin: Primer, State of Play, Discussion".
http://www.sunstone.eu
Introduction into blockchains and cryptocurrenciesSergey Ivliev
Slides from my intro course:
- mapping the digital asset ecosystem (as of August 2019)
- how bitcoin works - step-by-step primer?
- hashrate, dollar value transferred, transaction rate and other metrics (as of August 2019)
- hard money, uncorrelated asset and other use cases
- proof-of-stake and proof-of-identity
- horizontal and vertical scaling
- how ethereum smart contracts work?
- ERC20 token standard
- boom and bust of the ICO market (as of August 2019)
- intro into #DeFI (as of August 2019)
- stablecoins
- MarkerDAO, Compound, Uniswap and other cool decentralized finance protocols
- Cryptokitties, Storj, Peepeth and examples of non-financial dapps
An introductory presentation discussing the basics of technology behind blockchain, cryptocurrency mining, and an attempt to value a cryptocurrency. Further discussion on altcoins, and a preview on ICOs.
Presentation to a local meetup group interested in blockchain in Guangzhou, China on latest trends happening with DeFi, NFT, and other cryptocurrency projects in China
An overview of blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) including consensus, PoW, PoS, dBFT, DAG, smart contracts, Ethereum, Stellar, Ripple, Hashgraph Hedera, tokens, tokenomics, cryptocurrencies, ICO... taught during the ITU DLT seminar in Bangkok Thailand in September 2018
Blockchain technology is currently taking over the world with its amazing features. This presentation covers all you need to know about the basics of blockchain technology with beautiful animations
8 areas for PMF and IMF with blockchains_.pptxTim Swanson
First presented at the 2nd Annual Sora Economics conference on September 23, 2022: https://soranomics.com/
Video of presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aDSWXxQciA
The Nuances of Tokenization: A brief explanation on attempts from this past d...Tim Swanson
There are many misconceptions surrounding the world of NFTs. To fully understand how (art-related) NFTs arose we need to look back at the history of tokenization and fungible tokens as a whole. This brief overview was first presented at the Web 3.1 Unconference on February 28, 2022: https://web31.xyz/
DeFi's dependency on the U.S. banking systemTim Swanson
First presented on June 22, 2021 at SORA Economic Forum. Discusses collateral-backed "stablecoins" that rely on the U.S. financial system. See also Daistats.com for up-to-date charts.
By several measures Binance Smart Chain (BSC) has seen a lot of growth since it first launched nearly six months. This presentation was to give some context around the evolution of the BNB token and how it interacts with a couple of different chains (namely Binance Chain and BSC). This was first presented on February 19, 2021
Technology to help regulators and compliance departments has been in development and deployment for several decades. Why do some of the laws exist in the first place? And in the world of anarchic cryptocurrencies, what have market participants done to become compliant or non-compliant with laws surrounding identification and sanctions screening?
This presentation looks at coin intermediaries (commonly called cryptocurrency exchanges) and the various problems and challenges that have occurred over their existence. This includes hacks, insider thefts, exit scams, and facilitating money laundering.
This was first presented at Boston University on April 23, 2019. References are in the speaker notes.
B-words and financial market infrastructuresTim Swanson
This presentation provides a general overview of financial market infrastructures (FMI) and how blockchains can be used to remove intermediaries in capital markets. It also briefly looks at several companies and consortia with respect to their differences and similarities. Lastly, it describes a novel solution in the form of "decentralized financial market infrastructure" that was first proposed in 2018.
This was first presented at the Ethereum Silicon Valley meetup in Santa Clara hosted at Mindrome on April 9, 2019. References are in the speaker notes.
First presented at Anderson Kill's 1st Annual Blockchain and Virtual Currency Conference on May 23, 2018 in New York City.
Note: my presentation provided additional color to the key topic presented earlier by Stephen Palley who actually defines "dead token litigation."
See: https://www.andersonkill.com/Event-Details/EventID/1212
Part of a panel conversation, first presented at the UC Berkeley Blockchain Course on April 23, 2018
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uc-berkeley-blockchain-course-guest-panel-series-v-blockchain-in-2040-tickets-45226658152#
First presented on April 4, 2018 at Deconomy event in Seoul, South Korea. Based on a previous presentation on the same topic at the Smart Cloud event held on September 21, 2016 also in Seoul.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mVcWps1VQ0
First presented at the Ethereum Palo Alto meetup on August 7, 2016: http://www.meetup.com/EthereumSiliconValley/events/233053122/
All citations and references can be found in the Notes section.
I would like to thank Ian Grigg for his constructive feedback on these slides.
This was first presented on July 22, 2015 at Infosys in Mysore, India with the Blockchain University team. All citations and references can be found in the notes.
The Future of Fintech: Crystal balls and tasseographyTim Swanson
Presentation first given to a roundtable talk at the Sim Kee Boon Institute at Singapore Management University (http://http://skbi.smu.edu.sg/) on March 5, 2015. Additional notes, references and citations are in the comments of each slide. I would like to thank Arthur Breitman, Andrew Geyl (Organ of Corti), Yakov Kofner, Raja Ramachandran and John Whelan for their feedback and comments on several slides.
Primer to smart contracts, smart property, trustless asset managementTim Swanson
Companion video at: http://youtu.be/VDRYZ122mXA
Tim Swanson discusses cryptocurrencies, cryptoledgers, smart contracts, smart property, decentralized autonomous organizations and cryptobarter. There are footnotes included as well. Filmed at Hacker Dojo on February 14, 2014 during Ethereum meetup. More info at: www.ofnumbers.com
How to Create Map Views in the Odoo 17 ERPCeline George
The map views are useful for providing a geographical representation of data. They allow users to visualize and analyze the data in a more intuitive manner.
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
The Art Pastor's Guide to Sabbath | Steve ThomasonSteve Thomason
What is the purpose of the Sabbath Law in the Torah. It is interesting to compare how the context of the law shifts from Exodus to Deuteronomy. Who gets to rest, and why?
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
For more information, visit-www.vavaclasses.com
Students, digital devices and success - Andreas Schleicher - 27 May 2024..pptxEduSkills OECD
Andreas Schleicher presents at the OECD webinar ‘Digital devices in schools: detrimental distraction or secret to success?’ on 27 May 2024. The presentation was based on findings from PISA 2022 results and the webinar helped launch the PISA in Focus ‘Managing screen time: How to protect and equip students against distraction’ https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/managing-screen-time_7c225af4-en and the OECD Education Policy Perspective ‘Students, digital devices and success’ can be found here - https://oe.cd/il/5yV
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
How to Split Bills in the Odoo 17 POS ModuleCeline George
Bills have a main role in point of sale procedure. It will help to track sales, handling payments and giving receipts to customers. Bill splitting also has an important role in POS. For example, If some friends come together for dinner and if they want to divide the bill then it is possible by POS bill splitting. This slide will show how to split bills in odoo 17 POS.
We all have good and bad thoughts from time to time and situation to situation. We are bombarded daily with spiraling thoughts(both negative and positive) creating all-consuming feel , making us difficult to manage with associated suffering. Good thoughts are like our Mob Signal (Positive thought) amidst noise(negative thought) in the atmosphere. Negative thoughts like noise outweigh positive thoughts. These thoughts often create unwanted confusion, trouble, stress and frustration in our mind as well as chaos in our physical world. Negative thoughts are also known as “distorted thinking”.
This is a presentation by Dada Robert in a Your Skill Boost masterclass organised by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) on Saturday, the 25th and Sunday, the 26th of May 2024.
He discussed the concept of quality improvement, emphasizing its applicability to various aspects of life, including personal, project, and program improvements. He defined quality as doing the right thing at the right time in the right way to achieve the best possible results and discussed the concept of the "gap" between what we know and what we do, and how this gap represents the areas we need to improve. He explained the scientific approach to quality improvement, which involves systematic performance analysis, testing and learning, and implementing change ideas. He also highlighted the importance of client focus and a team approach to quality improvement.
2. Quick overview
• Was asked to go over a few frequently talked about topics:
• What is a cryptocurrency system
• Early crypto/virtual currencies
• Brief history of Bitcoin
• Deterministic money supply
• Mining (CPU, GPU, ASICs)
• Block rewards
• Mt. Gox
3. Zamfir defining consensus
• “Consensus protocols are used to make one reliable computer out of
many unreliable or untrusted computers”
• In his model, blockchains are more decentralized than traditional
consensus protocols
• Have “fork-choice rule”
• In the case of “permissionless” cryptocurrency networks, designers attempt
to use game theory to align incentives to incentivize (or disincentivize) forks
• There are other potential methods of achieving and incentivizing decentralized
consensus such as proof-of-stake (also called “Cow systems”), but beyond the scope of
this
4. Zamfir: distributed cryptoeconomic consensus
• [This term is preferable over “distributed consensus” because
academics have used it for over a decade and has different meanings]
• According to him:
• A cryptoeconomic mechanism with the Nash equilibrium of assuring
distributed byzantine fault tolerant consensus
• We should be able to assert and prove the cryptoeconomic
assurances of any consensus mechanism
• Distributed consensus mechanisms can create a pure cryptoeconomy.
Even the execution of the mechanisms is has a measurable assurance.
5. Zamfir cont’d
• Cryptoeconomics: economics for cryptography rather than
cryptography for economics
• Economic mechanisms can give guarantees that a program will run in
a particular way that cryptography alone cannot provide.
• Incentives are forward facing, cryptography is a function of already-
existing information
• How do we provide custom cryptoeconomic guarantees?
6. Virtual currencies and cryptocurrencies prior
to Bitcoin
• DigiCash (1990)
• e-gold (1996)
• WebMoney (1998)
• PayPal (1998)
• “Bitcoin is the opposite of PayPal, in the sense that it actually succeeded in creating a
currency.” -- Peter Thiel
• Beenz (1998)
• Flooz (1999)
• Liberty Reserve (2006)
• Frequent flyer points / loyalty programs
• WoW gold, Linden Dollars, Nintendo Points, Microsoft Points
7. Gwern: pre-requisites to Bitcoin’s blockchain
• 2001: SHA-256 finalized
• 1999-present: Byzantine fault tolerance (PBFT etc.)
• 1999-present: P2P networks (excluding early networks like Usenet or FidoNet;
MojoNation & BitTorrent, Napster, Gnutella, eDonkey, Freenet, i2p etc.)
• 1998: Wei Dai, B-money
• 1997: HashCash; 1998: Nick Szabo, Bit Gold; ~2000: MojoNation/BitTorrent;
~2001-2003, Karma, etc
• 1992-1993: Proof-of-work for spam
• 1991: cryptographic timestamps
• 1980: public key cryptography
• 1979: Hash tree
8. Short history of Bitcoin
• Final version of white paper released on Metzdowd cryptography /
cypherpunk mailing list on October 31, 2008
• Earlier drafts circulated to smaller number of people
• Adam Back suggested to Satoshi to include Wei Dai “B-Money” reference
• Genesis block “established” on January 3, 2009
• Version 0.1 code released on Metzdowd listserve on January 9, 2009
• Satoshi explains that he has been working on it for the past 18 months
• According to Nathaniel Popper, Hal Finney was one of a few who was given
earlier versions of the code prior to its release; was also the first known
person to receive a bitcoin transaction (block 170)
9. Biggest difference to pre-Bitcoin ccy’s
• So if cryptocurrencies existed before Bitcoin and if distributed consensus
mechanisms such as PBFT (1999) existed before Bitcoin, what does Bitcoin do
that DigiCash and others did not?
• Bitcoin sidesteps (but does not really “solve”) the double-spend problem by
purposefully making it expensive for any one actor to unilaterally change history
(also called “the state of the ledger”)
• Anonymous/Pseudonymous validators referred to as a dynamic membership multi-party
signature (Back 2014), or the Nakamoto signature (Grigg 2015)
• E.g., an attacker – in theory – would need to make a longer chain of “work” which costs
real resources to do so; conversely, if network becomes cheaper to operate it also
becomes cheaper to attack
• In practice, this “forking” can happen by accident too
• During July 4 - 5, 2015 on two separate occasions, block makers built on top of invalid blocks due to
adoption of BIP 66 by some but not all block makers
• Not a real “attack” per se, but it did cost over $50,000 in what are now “orphaned” chains (at least 9 blocks
altogether)
10. Virtual currencies and cryptocurrencies after
Bitcoin released
• CoinMarketCap currently tracks 592 cryptocurrencies / 59 assets
• CoinGecko tracks 225 cryptocurrencies/assets
• Ray Dillinger’s “Necronomicon” includes over 100 dead altcoins
• These are just publicly known blockchains, likely dozens if not hundreds of private
trials, proof of concepts in academia, institutions and from hobbyists
• E.g., Citibank announced in July 2015 that it was testing out three blockchains with a “Citicoin” to better
understand use-cases
• Some of these trials and implementations are not attempting to be censorship-
resistant cryptocurrencies – catering to other markets
• E.g., financial institutions looking to speed up cross-border payments without having to deal
with volatility or liquidity, create bilateral and multilateral blockchain settling
• Other virtual currencies: Facebook Credits (May 2009), Amazon Coin (2013)
12. Map of Coins is currently tracking 686 derivatives
of various cryptocurrencies
This includes all hashing functions (e.g., scrypt,
X11, X13)
And includes existing and defunct chains
20. Impact of losing privkey’s over time with a
deterministic money supply
21. Alternative money supplies
• Three notable proposals for a “stable coin”:
• Robert Sams (Seigniorage Shares)
• Ferdinando Ametrano (Hayek Money)
• Massimo Morini (Inv/Sav Wallet)
• Platforms with developers who have spoken about using it:
• Ethereum (Schelling coin), Augur (Truthcoin), Pebble (Openia), Tendermint
• Rebase purchasing power of the currency in a decentralized manner
• Can use two metrics: increase and decrease of hashrate as well as increase and decrease in fees to miner as
proxy for whether or not the quantity demanded has increased (or decreased)
• Seesaw of currency creation/seigniorage destruction
• Another experiment is Freicoin which uses demurrage (negative interest rates)
• Dogecoin was originally a fork of Luckycoin which used randomized rewards for mining a block
• Switched to a deterministic supply which then allotted the remaining 100 billion dogecoins (divvied out within
its first year) on a set schedule and finally switched to a permanent reward of 5.256 billion dogecoins per year
23. Eric Mu from HaoBTC in Sichuan
• Medium sized hashing farm in Kangding, western Sichuan (near border with
Tibet)
• It costs “RMB 1.5 million per petahash excluding running costs”
• Or roughly $242,000 / PH
• New hashing facility cost around $600,000 - $700,000 to construct
• 0.2 RMB per kWh electrical rate from nearby $10 million hydro electric dam (25,000 kW
output)
• Equivalent to ~$0.03 / kWh (during the “wet” season) -- when everything is accounted for
~$0.045 / kWh
• This is around the same price as the Washington State-based hashing facilities which is the cheapest in
the US; (Washington State partly subsidizes hydro)
• Rate is slightly more expensive during winter due to less water, 0.4 RMB
• At this price per joule, would cost around ~$90 million to reproduce “work” generated by the
~400 petahash chain
• Currently has ~9 PH and they are looking to expand to 10 PH to 12 PH (based on their cost structure)
• At current difficulty level it costs ~$161 to create / mine a bitcoin
• Note: ASICs are single use, this hashing equipment cannot run Excel or Google services, or even bitcoind
27. Hashrate follows price, amount of
resources expended (for POW) is
directly proportional to market value
of a POW token
28.
29. “Bitcoin involves proofs-of-work. There is no such thing as an efficient
proof-of-work. That's a contradiction in terms. Bitcoin is designed
fundamentally so that if people become more efficient at doing the
proofs-of-work, the difficulty of proofs-of-work goes up right in tandem
with what they're doing. And it ratchets so that your limit it will always
be power.”
- Bram Cohen, creator of BitTorrent
35. Brief history of Mt. Gox
• January 2007 – Jed McCaleb purchases the domain to be used as a website for users of Magic: The
Gathering then scraps the project
• July 18, 2010 – McCaleb, a week after learning about Bitcoin, builds and launches the eponymous
Bitcoin exchange
• March 6, 2011 – McCaleb announces the sale of Mt. Gox to Mark Karpeles
• June 19, 2011 – Mt. Gox is hacked and the resulting breach undermined market confidence, bitcoin
price dropped to $0.01
• For the next two years the market price steadily grew, reaching $266 on April 11, 2013
• April 11 – 12, 2013 – Mt. Gox, which accounted for about 70% of bitcoin trading marketshare,
suspends trading due to technical issues; price drops over $100
• December 5, 2013 – Market price of bitcoin reaches all-time high of over $1,100 on most exchanges
• February 7, 2014 – Mt. Gox halts all bitcoin withdrawals
• February 28, 2014 – Mt. Gox files for bankruptcy in Tokyo (files on March 7th in the US) and
announces it may have lost 750,000 bitcoins from users in addition to 100,000 bitcoins of its own
37. Summary
• Distributed consensus is a topic dating back multiple decades
• Distributed cryptoeconomic consensus is a newer term that relates to
decentralized cryptocurrency systems
• Underlying all of these cryptocurrency systems are a type of shared,
replicated ledger (which many call a “blockchain” or “distributed ledger”)
• Most common cryptocurrency systems today are proof-of-work-based and
are referred to as “permissionless” in that there is no formal gating process
to validate a transaction
• Other types of shared, replicated ledgers include permissioned blockchains
/ distributed ledgers that are (generally) not attempting to be yet another
cryptocurrency
• The overall Bitcoin ecosystem continues to teach both types of worlds
(permissioned and permissionless systems) what can and cannot work
This was first presented on July 20, 2015 at Infosys in Mysore, India with the Blockchain University team. I would like to thank Vlad Zamfir for his feedback and Eric Mu for the additional details about HaoBTC.
Image source: http://www.colostate.edu/Dept/CoopExt/Adams/weed/msthistle_mgt.htm
Source: https://twitter.com/ofnumbers/status/565594039370932225
Nathaniel Popper discussed this at Plug and Play: https://twitter.com/ofnumbers/status/606636310233620481
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FaQNPCqG58
According to Hamacher:
“So to get rid of inflation, they designed the protocol that over time, there is this creation of new bitcoins – that this goes up and saturates at some level which is 21 million bitcoins in the end.
But that is rather a naïve picture. Probably you have as bad luck I have, I have had several hard drive crashes in my lifetime, and what happens when your wallet where your bitcoins are stored and your private key vanish? Then your bitcoins are probably still in the system so to speak, so they are somewhat identifiable in all the transactions but they are not accessible so they are of no economic value anymore. You cannot exchange them because you cannot access them. Or think more in the future, someone dies but his family doesn’t know the password – no economic value in those bitcoins anymore. They cannot be used for any exchange anymore. And that is the amount of bitcoins when just a fraction per year vanish for different fractions. So the blue curve is 5% of all the bitcoins per year vanish by whatever means there could be other mechanisms.”
Personal correspondence: July 7, 2015
Source: http://cointelegraph.com/news/114474/inside-a-tibetan-bitcoin-mine-the-race-for-cheap-energy
And: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1072474.0
Illustration from Near Zero Bitcoin Transaction Fees Cannot Last Forever by Kerem Kaskaloglu
And: https://tradeblock.com/blog/bitcoin-network-capacity-analysis-part-3-miner-incentives
From Appendix B, Consensus-as-a-service.
From Bram’s talk starting at 48m45s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZaB4hM8SQ4
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox
And: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/28/us-bitcoin-mtgox-bankruptcy-idUSBREA1R0FX20140228
Market prices through August 2013: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmcTCtjBoRWUdHJuUE1mUkFxa3A0eHBDQkxZLVVFZmc#gid=0