Blockchain: Hope or Hype? - Exploring Real-World Applications
Offered By: The Royal Institution via YouTube
Course Description
Overview
Explore the potential and reality of blockchain technology in this 48-minute lecture from The Royal Institution. Delve into how blockchain works and evaluate its estimated usefulness as experts John Domingue and Sajida Zouarhi demonstrate real-world implementations. Discover applications beyond finance, from digital identities to kidney transplants, and understand how blockchain solves trust issues between parties without central authority. Gain insights from Domingue's expertise in semantics, the Web, and eLearning, and Zouarhi's experience as a Blockchain Architect and researcher. Learn about cutting-edge projects like the European Data Science Academy and the Kidner Project, which aims to prevent kidney trafficking using blockchain technology.
Syllabus
Blockchain: Hope or Hype? - John Domingue & Sajida Zouarhi
Taught by
The Royal Institution
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