Simple Blockchain
Blockchain is the foundation for digital transformation driven 4th Industrial Revolution and a driving factor behind web 3.0. According to the Blockchain Research institute, blockchain will enable an internet of value, where anything of value, including money, our identities, cultural assets like music, and even a vote can be stored, managed, transacted, and moved in a secure, private way.
With important civil interest and voting season around the corner; a new approach with a new tool. How could blockchain technology be applied to ensure truth in reporting and fairness in coverage the next election cycle? How about holding candidates accountable for their campaign promises with things like time locked, escrow contracts with oracles?
Blockchain is poised to transform every industry and managerial function —redefining the way we make transactions, share ideas, and manage workflow.
If blockchain itself provides the connective tissue of this 4th industrial revolution, the Smart contract is akin to the connective brain. Smart contracts are the transactions that take place between verified parties, executed by computer code and vary widely in scale and complexity.
With SIMBA Chain, anyone with an idea can develop smart contracts and blockchain based decentralized applications. Our web interface turns business analysts into API designers and our REST Based API turns any developer into a blockchain developer.
Workshop challenge
Your challenge as participants is to utilize the SIMBA Chain platform to design and build a blockchain enabled application on the SIMBAChain.Com platform. In this workshop we will show how easy Simbachain is to use and rapidly build out usable blockchain products.
Workshop walkthrough
Walk through the 34 steps laid out on the simbachain website. Go through the Auto track and trace application demo if time permits.
Judging criteria
Participants will be judged be the following
Coherent Use Case
All solutions must have some real world viability
Utilization of SIMBA Tool – Especially the point and click smart contract designer web interface!
Creativity of solution approach
Extra points for depth of functionality – but this is largely a tie breaker
Prize
3-D printer drop shipped to the winners address.
Your digital assets are more vulnerable you might think. They could be stolen by hackers, extorted by the mob, expropriated by the government, or lost by you!
This session will outline best practices of digital asset cold storage as described in a newly published free PDF book #SmartCustody, availble at http://bit.ly/SmartCustodyBookV101
#SmartCustody details the "Use of Advanced Cryptographic Tools to Improve the Care, Maintenance, Control, and Protection of Digital Assets". It's what you need to ensure that you don't lose your Bitcoins, your Ether, or your self-sovereign identity.
#SmartCustody teaches you how to protect your digital data and cryptocurrencies with procedural solutions. A risk-modeling methodology leads you through the process of sketching out your digital-asset processes, identifying your vulnerabilities, determining your true risks, and correcting those dangers. It's built upon a 14-step cold-storage scenario and a set of 27 personified adversaries. Case studies help to make the adversaries real, and identify both abstract and historic attacks for each.
Though this book lays its foundation upon the simplest level of self-custodianship, later sections describe how to use the risk modeling techniques (along with the cold-storage scenario and the adversaries list) to be a Smart Custodian if you're a fiduciary.
If you're a small Bitcoin holder, a cryptocurrency trader, or a small fund manager, #SmartCustody can offer you procedural techniques and adversarial insights to improve the security of your digital assets.
#SmartCustody is a project of Blockchain Commons, a social benefit organization which supports blockchain infrastructure, internet security & cryptographic research. Our goals in the #SmartCustody project are to:
