julianbrowne / blockchain-talk

Slides, code, etc for talk "Blockchain: Secret Sauce or Snake Oil?"

Blockchain: Secret Sauce or Snake Oil?

A demystification of blockchain and bitcoin.

Instructions

Easy route

• Watch it here

Run locally

• Clone the repo

  • git clone https://github.com/julianbrowne/blockchain-talk.git

  • cd blockchain-talk

• Install dependencies

  • npm install

• Run the http server

  • ./run.sh // defaults to port 8080

  • Point a modern browser at http://127.0.0.1:8080

Background

Originally developed as a presentation for a Cohaesus tech talk exploring the myths about blockchain. The talk was designed to explain blockchain from first principles to a non-technical audience.

The code snapshot from the night can be found at https://github.com/cohaesus/blockchain-talk

Credits

• Inspired by Anders Brownworth's awesome blockchain demo
• Reveal.js 4.1.0
• JQuery 3.3.1
• JS Sha256 0.9.0 by Yi-Cyuan Chen
• Pinboard adapted from CSS Sticky Notes by Ray Hammond
• Other sources