2. What is Blockchain ?
• “The blockchain is a simple digital platform for recording and verifying
transactions so that other people can’t erase them later and anyone can
see them.”
• No one knows who invented blockchain.
• The idea for it came after 2008 financial crisis from a paper
published online.
• The author, Satoshi Nakamoto, is thought to be using a pseudonym.
3. Key concept
• A type of distributed ledger comprises of unchangeable,
digitally recorded data in packages called blocks.
• These digitally recorded "blocks" of data is stored in a linear
chain.
• Each block in the chain containstransactiondata Is
cryptographicallyhashed.
• The blocks of hashed data draw upon the previous-block in
the chain, This ensures all data in the overall "blockchain"
has not been tampered with and remains unchanged.
• The blockchain represents a "golden record" of transactions,
a complete, historical record that technically cannot be
interfered with or undone.
6. What is bitcoin ?
• You may know Bitcoin as a virtual or digital currency (properly known
as a cryptocurrency)
• “It's money 2.0” - Chamath Palihapitiya, Former head of AOL
• “The first [encrypted money] that has the potential to do something
like change the world." - Peter Thiel, Co-Founder of Paypal
• BUT did you know that Bitcoin is also a giant computing network?
7. Some General Question related to bitcoin
How do people trust in it ?
What is proof of work ?
What is hashing ?
What is the use of private and public key for a
wallet ?
How bitcoin is mined ?
First transaction of bitcoin ?
8. Interesting
facts about
bitcoin
• First official transaction
• Market cap
• In 2010 you could have mined 200 bitcoin in just 1
day by your normal pc 1.2 million
• Returns from $.01 to $6500
• How much easy to setup a account
13. Advantages of Bitcoin
• Freedom in Payment.
• Hackproof
• Anonymous
• Control and Security
• Information is Transparent
• Very Low Fees
14. Disadvantages of Bitcoin
• With the absence of any Government backing, Bitcoin’s value is backed by
public’s confidence in its security and value, making it highly volatile.
• Lack of Awareness & Understanding
• Still Developing
• Risk of another currency becoming more popular, for example Ethereum
• Risk of government may ban transaction from currency to bitcoin
15.
16. Real Estate
• Blockchain can bring total transparency in real estate transactions. All
the flaws of paper-based transaction recording go away when we put
the data on a blockchain. Fraud prevention, low transaction costs,
efficient and secured land title tracking are some of the key benefits
that blockchain offers for real estate industry.
17. Voting
• Any voting use case will have — user authentication, secured storage
of votes cast and counting of votes by trusting authority to declare
winner. Blockchain can provide needed infrastructure for casting,
tracking, and counting votes. Delegating audits to the general public
or a group of people will ensure there is no foul play.
18. IOT
• A number of interesting use cases can be solved when we integrate
IoT devices with blockchain. Using blockchain as a public ledger for a
number of IoT devices,
• Databroker allows monetizing sensor data with the help of
blockchain. Slock.it converts any object into a smart object — you can
rent, sell or share anything. Blockchain-based solutions from filament
enable connected machines and devices to transact and exchange
value against a blockchain, taking enterprise and industrial IoT
connectivity benefits to the next level.
19. Payment Settlement
• Blockchain can be used to build a real-time settlement system for
quick payment processing. Ripple has built one such system. Ripple
connects banks, payment providers and digital asset exchanges via
RippleNet to provide one frictionless experience to send money
globally.