Blockchain: Secret Sauce or Snake Oil?
A demystification of blockchain and bitcoin.
Instructions
Easy route
- Watch it here
Run locally
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Clone the repo
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git clone https://github.com/julianbrowne/blockchain-talk.git -
cd blockchain-talk
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Install dependencies
npm install
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Run the http server
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./run.sh// defaults to port 8080 -
Point a modern browser at
http://127.0.0.1:8080
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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