Wyoming Blockchain Stampede

Storage for blockchain solutions.
With better performance and security (at half the cost) of AWS S3, Storj’s white paper promises have been delivered and the company is now focused on rapid, global growth of the ecosystem.

Everybody has a great idea waiting to be born, but what sets apart a real business from a cash incinerator? This presentation will discuss the challenges of moving a "good idea" into  a long term successful company instead a flash in the pan.  Choosing the right technologies, the right architecture, and leveraging open-source software are important parts of the solution, but so are basic business principles, like understanding the market, validating the product, and convincing customers to part with their money!

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

1. Coherent Use Case 

   1. All solutions must have some real world viability

2. Utilization of SIMBA Tool – Especially the point and click smart contract designer web interface!

3. Creativity of solution approach

4. Extra points for depth of functionality – but this is largely a tie breaker

Prize

3-D printer drop shipped to the winners address.

Over time, the ideals of the Free Software movement and the mentality of the General Public License gave way to centralization and loss of privacy, particularly illustrated around the adoption of the Linux operating system and its operation by the average user.  The process of compromise and stages of degradation will be examined, along with their consequences- and we will explore requirements for potential renewal of the best of these ideas- which have not yet achieved their intended benefit on behalf of the public.  The capitulation of Richard Stallman as head of the Free Software Foundation this week marks the end of this era, but the benefits that were envisioned by the Free and Open Source Software movement, and the ethics upheld by the SAGE Code of Ethics are keys to a new future free that actualizes the intended benefits of this approach to applied technology.