Blockchain in Health Research 2019 was the 2nd annual summit hosted at Georgetown University on 27 Apr 2019 by Sean Manion, Science Distributed and Gilles Hilary, Georgetown University.

1. Blockchain in Health Research
2019: Integrated Future
An Introduction to
Ethereum
Robert Miller
Senior Consultant, ConsenSys Health

2. 22
Ethereum is a smart contract platform
What is Ethereum?
Ethereum is the world’s first fully programmable blockchain. It is made
to "build unstoppable applications" that "run exactly as programmed,
without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud, or 3rd party
interference."

3. 33
Ethereum is flexible
What is Ethereum?
Private Consortium Public

4. 44
Ethereum is enterprise ready
What is Ethereum?
Permissioning Privacy
Performance Enterprise Products

5. 5
What is Ethereum?
Ethereum is the largest blockchain
community in the world
300,000+
Developers globally (15x larger than
the next largest community)
30,000+
New developers each month (and
growing)
95%+
New token launches

6. 6
What is Ethereum?
Ethereum is adopted globally

7. 7
What is Ethereum?
Ethereum is the largest blockchain ecosystem

8. 8
Challenges Ethereum
faces
8
CHALLENGES

9. 99
Scaling
CHALLENGES
~8
transactions
per second

10. 1010
Governance
CHALLENGES

11. 1111
New entrants
CHALLENGES

12. 12
We are
here
Ethereum is ~4
years old, used by
enterprises and
startups around
the world, and is
the biggest
blockchain
community
12
LOOKING FORWARD
Bitcoin
Launched
January 3rd, 2009
Ethereum
Whitepaper
Vitalik Buterin
publishes the
idea of a smart
contract
platform
ETH 2.0 /
Next gen
???
ETH 2.0: EWASM,
proof-of-stake, &
sharding
Others:
On-chain
governance, new
consensus
mechanisms
zk-rollups, layer 1
privacy solutions,
sidechains, super
quadratic
sharding,
interoperability

13. email: robert.miller@consensys.net
twitter: @bertcmiller
newsletter: http://bertcmiller.com/GT
Thank you!