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Blockchain and Its Applications
Blockchain and Its Applications
Somil Bhandari
April 10th 2020
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What is Blockchain
OR
A solution
looking for a problem !
2
Blockchain – A storage
technology
• Immutable
• Distributed
• Decentralized
• Permissionless
• Verifiable
• Private/ Public
• P2P
Inventor – Satoshi Nakamoto
3
3 Charlie
Charlie contributes
pays Rs. 300Rs.
to 10000
Bob for Movie 11101111010
4 Alice pays Rs. 300 to Bob for Dinner 10010101010
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contributesRs.
Rs.10000
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3 Charlie
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paysRs.
Rs.300
300to
toBob
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forDinner
Dinner 10010101010
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Alice 5
6
Bob
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paysRs.
Charlie
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toBob
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Bob pays Rs. 10000 to Charlie for Rent
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Charlie
7 Charlie pays Rs. 300 to Bob for Movie 11101111010
0000000000000000000010100111101110
00000000000000000000
1110000101001000100000011101010110
0011011101010100000010111101110111
1001010011111
Proof of Work
100101001111101100
Proof of Work
10010100111110
Block Reward
100101001111101100
X ETH/ hectare
premium
Y ETH/day late fee
•Failure
Premium to pay by with user’s public key –
input to smart contract
10th – lapse
•Draught
Sensors –M – rainfall data in various
areas
ETH/hectare claim
• Low rainfall for long period in an area – payout via ETH
• Eliminates middlemen, low premium, no fraud
DAO
• Side chains
• Proof of Stake
• Cardano
• Solves scalability issues
• Interoperability
• Uses proof of stake
• Low transaction costs
• IOTA – Tangle
• Highly scalable
• No transaction fee
• Offline transactions
• No miners
References
• https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_work
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBC-nXj3Ng4&t=1019s
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx9zgZCMqXE
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxLkbJozKbY&t=335s