Blockchain - Distributed Ledger Technologies

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TLDRDieses Webinar gibt einen ausführlichen Überblick über den Masterstudiengang (MSc) in Blockchain an der Dublin City University (DCU). Der Kurs wurde entwickelt, um eine Lücke in den Fähigkeiten im Bereich der Blockchain-Technologie zu schließen, die sowohl national als auch international erkannt wurde. Die Präsentatoren heben hervor, dass Blockchain nicht mehr nur als vielversprechende Technologie gilt, sondern ein integraler Bestandteil der organisatorischen Innovation ist, wie aus der Deloitte 2020 Global Blockchain Survey hervorgeht. Der zweijährige, teilzeitbasierte Online-Kurs richtet sich an Berufstätige und umfasst Themen wie Kryptografie, Blockchain-Basics, Cloud-Systeme, Blockchain-Skalierbarkeit und Computersicherheit. Das Programm beinhaltet auch einen praktischen Block, in dem die Studenten Prototypen von Blockchain-Softwaresystemen entwickeln. Andrew aus dem ersten Kursjahr und ein Branchenexperte erörtern die praktischen Anwendungen von Blockchain und die Karrieremöglichkeiten, die der Kurs bietet. Trotz regulatorischer Herausforderungen wird ein Wachstum in der Blockchain-Nutzung, besonders im Finanzsektor, erwartet.

Para llevar

  • 📊 Blockchain wird zunehmend von Unternehmen angewendet.
  • 🎓 DCU bietet den ersten MSc in Blockchain in Irland an.
  • 🖥️ Der Kurs ist berufsbegleitend und online.
  • 🔑 Kryptografie ist ein essentieller Bestandteil des Programms.
  • 💼 Blockchain bietet vielfältige Karrieremöglichkeiten.
  • 🇮🇪 Teilnehmende können finanzielle Unterstützung erhalten.
  • 💡 Der Kurs hilft, eine erkannte Fähigkeitslücke zu schließen.
  • 👥 Programm beinhaltet Zusammenarbeit mit Technologiepartnern.
  • 📘 Studierende entwickeln praktische Blockchain-Prototypen.
  • 🌐 Programmeinsatz fördert internationale Blockchain-Adaption.

Cronología

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    In diesem Webinar geht es um den MSc in Blockchain, der von der DCU angeboten wird. Es beginnt mit der Präsentation von Statistiken aus einer Deloitte-Umfrage von 2020, die zeigt, dass Blockchain zunehmend in die Produktion integriert und als strategische Priorität anerkannt wird. 82 % der Befragten haben Pläne, in den nächsten 12 Monaten Fachkräfte im Bereich Blockchain einzustellen.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Der MSc-Studiengang in Blockchain wird in Zusammenarbeit mit der Industrie entwickelt und von Technology Ireland ICT Skillnet mitfinanziert, um dem Fachkräftemangel entgegenzuwirken. Der Kurs ist als zweijähriges, teilzeitliches Online-Programm konzipiert, das Flexibilität für Berufstätige bietet. Die Kursinhalte werden hauptsächlich asynchron online bereitgestellt.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Für die Gestaltung des Kurses werden Plattformen wie die GCU Vision Learning Environment und FutureLearn genutzt. Der Unterricht ist flexibel, aber es gibt synchrone und face-to-face-Komponenten, hauptsächlich für Prüfungen. Die pandemiebedingte Umstellung auf Online-Prüfungen verlief erfolgreich. Der Kurs betont flexible Lernzeiten, um die Vereinbarkeit mit beruflichen Verpflichtungen zu gewährleisten.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Der Kurs hat einen strukturierten Lehrplan mit verschiedenen Modulen, die Fähigkeiten wie Forschungskompetenzen, Kryptografie, Blockchain-Grundlagen und Cloud-Systeme abdecken. Schwerpunkt ist die Blockchain Practicum, in der die Studenten Blockchain-Prototypen entwickeln. Eine enge Zusammenarbeit mit einem akademischen Betreuer ist vorgesehen.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Die Module eines Blockjahres umfassen Forschungsfähigkeiten, Kryptografie, Blockchain-Basics, Cloud-Systeme und Sicherheitsprotokolle. Kryptografie wird als zentraler Bestandteil der Blockchain-Technologie hervorgehoben. Ein praktisches Modul konzentriert sich auf die Entwicklung von Blockchain-Anwendungen mit Ethereum und Hyperledger.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    Die Kursstruktur umfasst die kontinuierliche Bewertung (CA) und abschließende Prüfungen. Die Vorauswahl für den Kurs erfolgt auf Basis eines Bachelor-Abschlusses in Informatik oder verwandten Bereichen, aber relevante Berufserfahrung kann ebenfalls berücksichtigt werden. Der Kurs ist durch Finanzhilfen gefördert, die die Gebühren reduzieren.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    Das Interesse am Kurs wächst, Bewerbungen für das kommende Studienjahr sind ab sofort möglich. Studenten erhalten umfassende Kenntnisse über Blockchain und verwandte Technologien. Ein Teilnehmer teilt seine Erfahrungen und hebt die beruflichen Vorteile hervor, die er durch den Kurs erlangt hat.

  • 00:35:00 - 00:40:00

    Blockchain wird als verteilt geführtes Hauptbuch beschrieben, das durch Kryptografie gesichert ist. Es gibt öffentliche und private Netzwerke; die Fintech-Industrie sieht großes Potenzial in der Blockchain-Technologie, insbesondere für transparente und effiziente Prozesse. Unternehmensimplementierungen und die Entwicklung von dApps werden als bedeutende Trends genannt.

  • 00:40:00 - 00:45:00

    Im Fintech-Bereich erweist sich Blockchain als treibende Kraft für Transparenz und Effizienz. Trends umfassen Blockchain als Service, stabile Coins und die Integration in soziale Netzwerke. Die Einbeziehung in Universitätslehrpläne ist ebenfalls ein signifikanter Schritt zur Ausbildung zukünftiger Blockchain-Experten.

  • 00:45:00 - 00:50:00

    Die Diskussion behandelt die Vielseitigkeit der Blockchain-Anwendung, von der Verbesserung der Sicherheit in der Finanzbranche bis zur Optimierung der Lieferkettenprozesse. Blockchain für IoT und die Rolle der Universitäten in der Ausbildung qualifizierter Fachleute werden ebenfalls hervorgehoben.

  • 00:50:00 - 00:56:10

    Zum Abschluss des Webinars werden Publikumsfragen zu Anwendungsfällen, regulatorischen Herausforderungen und den erforderlichen Programmierkenntnissen beantwortet. Es herrscht Konsens darüber, dass Blockchain ein interdisziplinärer Ansatz ist, die vermehrt die Zusammenarbeit von Entwicklern mit Fachleuten aus anderen Bereichen erfordert.

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Preguntas frecuentes

  • Was ist der MSc in Blockchain?

    Es handelt sich um einen Masterstudiengang in Blockchain und Distributed Ledger Technologies, der von der DCU in Zusammenarbeit mit Technologiepartnern angeboten wird.

  • Wie lange dauert das MSc-Programm in Blockchain?

    Das Programm dauert zwei Jahre und wird als Teilzeit-Online-Kurs angeboten.

  • Welche Themen werden im MSc-Blockchain-Kurs behandelt?

    Zu den behandelten Themen gehören Kryptografie, Blockchain-Basics und -Anwendungen, Clouds-Systeme, Blockchain-Skalierbarkeit und Computersicherheit.

  • Welche Statistik wurde in der Präsentation zur Einführung verwendet?

    Statistiken von Deloitte's 2020 Global Blockchain Survey wurden vorgestellt, die aufzeigen, dass Blockchain zunehmend in die Produktion integriert wird.

  • Wie wird der MSc in Blockchain-Studiengang organisiert?

    Es handelt sich um einen flexiblen, nicht synchron stattfindenden Online-Kurs, der auf der Loop-Plattform und FutureLearn läuft.

  • Welche Fähigkeiten sind für den Kurs erforderlich?

    Programmierkenntnisse sind für den Kurs hilfreich, insbesondere für das Verständnis von Cloud-Systemen und das Entwickeln von Blockchain-Anwendungen.

  • Gibt es Fördermöglichkeiten für das MSc-Programm?

    Ja, förderfähige Kandidaten können finanzielle Unterstützung zur Senkung der Studiengebühren erhalten.

  • Was macht ein Blockchain-Ingenieur bei Blockdaemon?

    Ein Blockchain-Ingenieur entwickelt und verwaltet Nodes als Service und arbeitet mit verschiedenen Blockchain-Protokollen.

  • Welche Karrierechancen bietet der Kurs?

    Der Kurs bietet Karrierechancen in Bereichen wie DevOps, Datenanalytik, Blockchain-Architektur und Sicherheit.

  • Wer kann am Programm teilnehmen?

    IT-Fachleute mit einem Bachelor-Abschluss in einem relevanten Bereich und Berufstätige im öffentlichen oder privaten Sektor in Irland.

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    hello everyone
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    you are all very welcome to today's
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    webinar on the msc
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    in blockchain i hope you are all keeping
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    well and adjusting to the
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    new norm that we find ourselves in so i
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    decided to
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    start my presentation today uh
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    with the statistics um presented by
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    deloitte deloitte 2020 global blockchain
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    survey from promise
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    to reality uh some of the results from
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    their surveys presented
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    here their survey included
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    responses from about 1 500
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    senior executives and basically suggests
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    that
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    initial doubts about the blockchain are
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    finding
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    and is not seen anymore as just simply
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    promising
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    technology but this integra is an
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    integral part to organizational uh
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    innovation you can see
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    uh from some of the stats presented here
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    that 39
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    of the respondents already brought
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    blockchain into production
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    quite a leap there as compared to the
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    2019 where
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    there were only 23 uh percent
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    um of the respondent bringing the
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    blockchain into the production
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    um 55 percent of the respondents stated
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    blockchain is the top five uh priority
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    so uh
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    strategic uh priority
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    um it's not that much different as
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    compared to 2019 it's still an increase
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    but it's quite a considerable difference
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    as compared to 2018 quite a considerable
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    increase there and another interesting
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    statistic especially in the context of
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    um it's about the hiring so
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    the respondents said that they are
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    currently having a plan to
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    uh hire uh within uh next uh
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    12 months um
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    staff with expertise in blockchain 82
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    of the responders say that they intend
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    to do uh
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    to do this
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    the next um i'm going to dive into my uh
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    presentation about the
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    msc in blockchain a master that is
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    delivered provided by dcu and is
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    co-founded by technology island ict
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    skillnet
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    the full name of the
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    master is msc in the computing
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    blockchain distributed
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    ledger technologies as because we felt
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    obviously
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    a master that is strongly branded to be
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    an amazing blockchain master so from now
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    on i'm simply going to refer to it as an
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    msc in blockchain uh master
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    it's the first msc blockchain i
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    from in ireland and it was created as a
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    response to a skills gap that was
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    uh technology island ict skill in
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    collaboration with the
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    blockchain uh island so they uh
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    stated surveys were carried on and um
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    there was a
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    it was identified the lack of blockchain
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    skills at the national
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    but that's an international um level
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    um so in order uh
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    for the blockchain in order to progress
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    uh iron will require obviously software
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    development skills
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    island ict skillnet the curriculum was
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    collaboration between ecu and other
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    partners um in order to make sure that
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    uh industry the master is
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    supposed to last for two years so the
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    that was developed considering
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    we need to help provide flexibility for
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    the working professionals to be able to
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    learn while they are working obviously
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    is an asynchronous online delivery there
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    are very few synchronous component and
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    hours
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    the people coming on the course
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    can learn at their own pace
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    we use uh for delivery two main
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    platforms so the gcu
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    vision learning environment which is
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    loop this is mainly used for
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    the forum discussions for the submission
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    the lecturers are usually uploading this
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    technologies to make sure that
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    we provide the best learning experience
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    possible
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    um we we use other tools as well such as
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    zoom for instance for the synchronous
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    elements so for instance if a lecturer
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    has a presentation component for one of
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    the
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    assessment uh the lecture will organize
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    some
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    uh we'll use probably zoom or maybe some
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    other tool
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    um for a remote uh meeting
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    so the learner can present um uh the
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    work
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    uh he's done um as i said the
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    assignments
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    are submitted uh mainly online um
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    said that he said there may exist a kind
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    of a presentation uh component but that
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    we provide the learners with many
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    options
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    to book a time slot for their
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    presentation
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    uh as i said we have face-to-face um
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    face-to-face and synchronous components
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    these are mainly
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    the exams most of the modules
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    on the program have a terminal uh
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    examination
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    and that was designed to happen
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    in campus uh however in the past
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    academic year
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    the may june exams uh and also the
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    august exam
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    are designed uh um at work and are could
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    be designed for
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    to happen online due to this um uh
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    copied 19 circumstances uh it went
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    uh very well um so no complaints um
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    um there
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    now i said that um um the working
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    professional can learn at their own pace
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    uh there are no timetabled um classes
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    but uh in the beginning of the semester
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    we provide
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    the timetable for the assessment
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    to make sure that um they keep on track
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    with their uh
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    uh learning um we make sure to schedule
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    the deadlines for the assessment
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    apart so not to be too many deadlines in
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    the same
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    week for instance um and um
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    also we make sure that we state
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    uh the the
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    content that the learners needs to cover
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    in order to be able to complete
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    their assessment
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    um so the program structure of of this
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    master
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    um is a total of 90 ect as the
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    credit uh the european credit transfer
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    accumulation system is
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    used here in general we
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    have two modules per semester 7.5
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    ects credits each with the exception of
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    the second year
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    where throughout the uh both semesters
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    and also in the summer period
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    um those that are coming on the program
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    they need to
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    uh do their blockchain practicum which
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    is a 30 ecps
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    credits module in line with all the
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    blockchain practicum that we have on all
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    our master
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    programs
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    basically the blockchain practicum
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    requires the
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    learners to develop prototype blockchain
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    software systems to solve a real work
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    uh problem or to analyze blockchain
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    subsystem and propose uh improvements we
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    are quite flexible with the topic um
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    proposed um we have lecturers that
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    have proposed some um uh some projects
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    but
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    we strongly encourage uh the learners to
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    come with their own
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    ideas we are also open to uh
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    projects that are supposed to be
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    developed in an industry setting so for
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    instance if
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    they want to develop the project in the
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    context of their
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    own workplace this can be uh discussed
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    um every student will have um uh will be
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    allocated um
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    um supervisor an academic supervisor and
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    he can discuss uh
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    all these ideas and the setting of the
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    project and everything with the
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    with the supervisor and decide on the
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    course of
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    action um i presented here
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    an overview of the of the modules um
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    structure per year and the semester
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    we provide modules you can see the first
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    uh one first module there in year one
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    semester one research method and
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    professional skills
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    it's again um a module that is uh
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    uh profile is delivered on all our
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    master
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    uh modules uh is introducing the
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    uh learners to uh research mentions
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    method professional uh uh skills
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    uh law and compliance um uh ethics
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    um and so on so forth it's a highly
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    important
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    um they are highly usually highly
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    important skills acquired
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    uh during this uh module and we have
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    quite a
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    good feedback in relation to the content
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    of this module including from the first
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    cohort of the
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    msm blockchain students from
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    a past academic year they were quite
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    happy with it
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    then we have two cryptography modules
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    one in uh first year semester one then
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    in
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    uh second year semester one cryptography
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    and number two with respect to
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    republican photography and security
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    uh protocols obviously cryptography is
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    an integral part of the
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    inner workings of blockchain technology
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    publicly encryption services
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    basis for blockchain transactions
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    cryptography hash functions provide the
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    trade of immutability so it's very
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    important um
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    they are very important modules um
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    in the context of the blockchain
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    technology
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    blockchain basics and applications is a
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    module that
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    introduces the student to blockchain
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    technology and how it can
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    be used in applications um
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    cloud systems uh it was introduced uh
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    considering that um
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    uh one of the major ways to use
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    blockchain is blockchain as a service
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    for instance so
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    we felt that um
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    the students coming on the program we
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    need to have
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    we need to have an understanding of the
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    cloud systems as well
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    uh blockchain scalability will give the
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    learner's knowledge of the many
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    technologies that underpin distributed
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    ledger implementations and smart
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    contract architectures and how they
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    uh scale developing blockchain system is
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    a highly practical modules about
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    developing blockchain applications using
  • 00:12:18
    this
  • 00:12:19
    ethereum and hyperledger
  • 00:12:23
    uh computer security um it's quite an
  • 00:12:26
    important module um
  • 00:12:28
    uh when studying any kind of mastering
  • 00:12:29
    uh computing but also
  • 00:12:32
    uh especially when studying um
  • 00:12:35
    on a mastering blockchain it's uh aimed
  • 00:12:38
    to
  • 00:12:39
    provide a total understanding of the
  • 00:12:41
    theory and practice of computer security
  • 00:12:44
    and um i think it's quite important from
  • 00:12:47
    the
  • 00:12:47
    um from the learner studying the
  • 00:12:50
    blockchain
  • 00:12:50
    to have a good understanding of security
  • 00:12:53
    especially
  • 00:12:55
    uh because um there is this uh kind of
  • 00:12:58
    false sense of
  • 00:12:59
    security among the or they can be
  • 00:13:02
    uh this kind this fourth sense of
  • 00:13:04
    security among the
  • 00:13:06
    blockchain developers that you know
  • 00:13:08
    blockchain is
  • 00:13:09
    technology is considered to be a highly
  • 00:13:11
    secure technology
  • 00:13:13
    which is true but when developing smart
  • 00:13:16
    contracts we still need to
  • 00:13:18
    implement secure development standards
  • 00:13:21
    and practices to make sure that our code
  • 00:13:23
    is secure recent attacks um
  • 00:13:26
    for instance um exploited the
  • 00:13:30
    vulnerabilities in code
  • 00:13:31
    that could have been avoided with the
  • 00:13:34
    uh with simple secure coding uh
  • 00:13:38
    practicing
  • 00:13:39
    practices uh so this is pretty much
  • 00:13:43
    uh and you see i edited the blockchain
  • 00:13:45
    practicum in
  • 00:13:46
    semester one and semester two of year
  • 00:13:48
    two uh
  • 00:13:49
    and the work is planned to be finalized
  • 00:13:52
    during the summer so basically the
  • 00:13:54
    examination
  • 00:13:55
    uh of the project of the blockchain uh
  • 00:13:58
    practicum
  • 00:13:58
    will happen uh in august um
  • 00:14:03
    you also can see that i added there uh
  • 00:14:07
    between the brackets uh for instance for
  • 00:14:09
    the research method and professional
  • 00:14:11
    skills 40
  • 00:14:12
    ca ca comes from continuous assessment
  • 00:14:14
    uh so basically
  • 00:14:16
    the assessment that they learn how to
  • 00:14:18
    support to do during the semester and
  • 00:14:20
    then um
  • 00:14:20
    uh sixty percent uh uh it's
  • 00:14:24
    um the terminal exam
  • 00:14:27
    so that those are basically the
  • 00:14:29
    weightings
  • 00:14:30
    uh in calculated the overall mark for
  • 00:14:34
    for the module
  • 00:14:38
    the eligibility for this machine
  • 00:14:40
    blockchains
  • 00:14:41
    so all the i.t professionals in
  • 00:14:44
    employment in the public violence
  • 00:14:45
    registered
  • 00:14:46
    companies are eligible for this masters
  • 00:14:49
    once they have a level 8
  • 00:14:50
    honors degree
  • 00:14:54
    a minimum of age to 2 or higher in
  • 00:14:57
    computer science
  • 00:14:59
    computing computer applications or
  • 00:15:01
    related
  • 00:15:02
    disciplines if the applicants don't have
  • 00:15:06
    or don't meet the century requirements
  • 00:15:08
    we can still consider
  • 00:15:10
    them if they can demonstrate the
  • 00:15:11
    previously obtained competence
  • 00:15:12
    equivalent to the entry
  • 00:15:14
    requirements for instance if they have
  • 00:15:15
    extensive
  • 00:15:18
    experience in industry experience
  • 00:15:21
    etc so we can still consider this
  • 00:15:25
    application um
  • 00:15:28
    the the fees so the eligible candidates
  • 00:15:31
    can avail of funding to reduce course
  • 00:15:33
    fees to
  • 00:15:34
    uh two thousand uh uh 750 per
  • 00:15:38
    annum uh who are these eligible
  • 00:15:40
    candidates well
  • 00:15:41
    they're those who weren't in the place
  • 00:15:43
    by the college and who are working in
  • 00:15:45
    private or commercial semi-state
  • 00:15:46
    organization in uh
  • 00:15:48
    republic of uh uh ireland
  • 00:15:52
    uh the next steps if you are interested
  • 00:15:54
    and hopefully you are interested
  • 00:15:55
    uh to applying uh to apply uh uh to
  • 00:15:58
    study on this program
  • 00:16:00
    is to go uh to this link uh hit the
  • 00:16:03
    skeleton
  • 00:16:04
    training msc in a blockchain and apply
  • 00:16:06
    online there
  • 00:16:07
    uh the first step is to submit um to
  • 00:16:09
    download the brochure
  • 00:16:10
    to see more details submit a cv
  • 00:16:14
    and it's important to say that the
  • 00:16:15
    applications are being taken now for the
  • 00:16:18
    next academic year the 2021 academic
  • 00:16:22
    academic year okay so my name is andrew
  • 00:16:26
    i'm currently halfway through the
  • 00:16:28
    blockchain
  • 00:16:29
    masters program in dcu um so we've
  • 00:16:32
    completed year one
  • 00:16:33
    and i was asked to just give a little
  • 00:16:34
    bit of information on what i'm currently
  • 00:16:36
    working on and also how the course kind
  • 00:16:38
    of
  • 00:16:38
    helped me in my career so
  • 00:16:41
    i have a couple of uh things i'm going
  • 00:16:43
    to talk about just a very brief slide on
  • 00:16:45
    blockchain
  • 00:16:46
    a little bit about the company i work
  • 00:16:47
    for block demon and then a little bit
  • 00:16:49
    about the course
  • 00:16:50
    and the kind of activities we got up
  • 00:16:51
    throughout the year
  • 00:16:53
    so first what is a blockchain uh i won't
  • 00:16:55
    dwell on this too much a lot of people
  • 00:16:57
    already
  • 00:16:57
    are familiar or have some some ideas but
  • 00:16:59
    basically it's a ledger
  • 00:17:01
    a distributed ledger of data that's
  • 00:17:03
    shared among
  • 00:17:05
    nodes or computers that are connected to
  • 00:17:07
    the internet it's secured by
  • 00:17:09
    cryptography
  • 00:17:10
    which we'll touch on a little bit in a
  • 00:17:11
    while and then there's a couple of
  • 00:17:13
    different ways that that cryptography is
  • 00:17:14
    enforced
  • 00:17:15
    so the kind of leading implementations
  • 00:17:18
    that we have in the industry now
  • 00:17:19
    are proof of work which involves mining
  • 00:17:21
    and hashing algorithms and then we also
  • 00:17:23
    have proof of stake which is
  • 00:17:25
    another kind of incumbent technology
  • 00:17:27
    that's starting to gain a lot of
  • 00:17:29
    traction with
  • 00:17:29
    the newer protocols so the main thing
  • 00:17:32
    that a blockchain does is it keeps
  • 00:17:34
    track of information so you've got like
  • 00:17:35
    accounts and transactions and assets and
  • 00:17:38
    the kind of
  • 00:17:38
    how those move around the network and
  • 00:17:40
    get passed around between different
  • 00:17:41
    participants
  • 00:17:42
    so back in 2009 bitcoin was the first
  • 00:17:46
    um protocol that kind of pioneered this
  • 00:17:48
    technology
  • 00:17:49
    uh it was a cryptocurrency i'm sure many
  • 00:17:51
    people have heard about it
  • 00:17:52
    um during the course you learn a lot
  • 00:17:54
    about it which is very interesting as
  • 00:17:56
    well
  • 00:17:57
    um so there's two types of networks that
  • 00:17:59
    are kind of doing
  • 00:18:00
    um that are working through the industry
  • 00:18:01
    at the moment you've got the public
  • 00:18:03
    permissionless networks like bitcoin and
  • 00:18:05
    ethereum and then you've got the kind of
  • 00:18:07
    private networks that are
  • 00:18:08
    um kind of more industry uh developed
  • 00:18:11
    or suitable for industry development and
  • 00:18:15
    a good example of this would be
  • 00:18:16
    something like hyperledger fabric which
  • 00:18:17
    is
  • 00:18:18
    um mostly developed by a consortium of
  • 00:18:21
    different companies
  • 00:18:22
    ibm being one of the leading leading
  • 00:18:24
    companies in that consortium
  • 00:18:27
    so there's kind of a few different
  • 00:18:28
    places where where crypto
  • 00:18:30
    and blockchain technology is used um
  • 00:18:33
    we're starting to see a lot of interest
  • 00:18:34
    in
  • 00:18:35
    enterprise use cases and certainly with
  • 00:18:37
    the company i work for we're getting a
  • 00:18:38
    lot of interest from enterprises
  • 00:18:40
    some of the good examples would be
  • 00:18:42
    something like supply chain um tracking
  • 00:18:44
    of data
  • 00:18:45
    um and and supply chain um components as
  • 00:18:48
    they move throughout
  • 00:18:50
    the world and get shipped and and things
  • 00:18:53
    like this
  • 00:18:54
    and then there's another emerging thing
  • 00:18:55
    that is starting to gain a lot of
  • 00:18:57
    traction as well and this is um
  • 00:18:58
    gaps or decentralized applications which
  • 00:19:01
    run on
  • 00:19:02
    smart contract technology and deployed
  • 00:19:04
    to blockchains like ethereum
  • 00:19:06
    or algorithm so what do i do
  • 00:19:10
    um so i'm the lead engineer a blockchain
  • 00:19:14
    engineer in a company called blockdemon
  • 00:19:16
    we do
  • 00:19:17
    blockchain nodes as a service so we have
  • 00:19:20
    a lot of different
  • 00:19:21
    protocols that we've onboarded onto our
  • 00:19:23
    platform and you can call us at
  • 00:19:24
    blockchain as a service company or a
  • 00:19:26
    node as a service company
  • 00:19:28
    currently we've about 20 protocols maybe
  • 00:19:31
    a few more
  • 00:19:32
    we try and work with most of the big
  • 00:19:34
    protocols out there a lot of
  • 00:19:36
    our customers are either developers or
  • 00:19:40
    industry kind of people who want to
  • 00:19:42
    experiment with certain protocols
  • 00:19:43
    we work a lot with large investment
  • 00:19:45
    funds
  • 00:19:46
    and we also run our own public validator
  • 00:19:50
    nodes on these networks
  • 00:19:52
    so we have quite a lot of nodes i think
  • 00:19:55
    over a thousand nodes
  • 00:19:57
    running in a multi-cloud environment
  • 00:19:59
    distributed all
  • 00:20:00
    across the different regions and
  • 00:20:01
    different clouds in the world we also
  • 00:20:03
    have
  • 00:20:04
    a data center with some dedicated
  • 00:20:05
    machines for various
  • 00:20:07
    um secure features that we have to
  • 00:20:10
    implement with a lot of these protocols
  • 00:20:12
    and then we also have a couple of other
  • 00:20:14
    projects that we're working on so we
  • 00:20:15
    have
  • 00:20:15
    ubiquity which is a data api that kind
  • 00:20:18
    of
  • 00:20:19
    uh sits across multiple blockchains and
  • 00:20:22
    offers
  • 00:20:22
    a unique uh sorry um a consistent
  • 00:20:26
    api experience across multiple
  • 00:20:28
    blockchains so we do
  • 00:20:29
    all the heavy lifting of converting to
  • 00:20:31
    the different apis that each of the
  • 00:20:32
    blockchains use
  • 00:20:34
    and we're currently nearing
  • 00:20:37
    production readiness for that and we
  • 00:20:39
    also have another
  • 00:20:40
    um project called the blockchain package
  • 00:20:43
    manager or bpm as we like to call it
  • 00:20:45
    internally
  • 00:20:46
    the idea here is that a developer or an
  • 00:20:48
    organization
  • 00:20:49
    can use a um a tool similar to
  • 00:20:53
    npm for the node.js ecosystem but to
  • 00:20:56
    deploy
  • 00:20:57
    blockchain infrastructure either on
  • 00:20:58
    their laptop or in their own data center
  • 00:21:01
    or
  • 00:21:01
    in their own cloud servers and the idea
  • 00:21:03
    there is to have a unified experience
  • 00:21:05
    across multiple blockchains
  • 00:21:07
    so currently we have a lot of
  • 00:21:11
    employees in ireland but i say a lot we
  • 00:21:12
    have several employees in ireland
  • 00:21:14
    we're the european base um and uh we're
  • 00:21:16
    currently hiring for a lot of positions
  • 00:21:18
    uh and it's essential for us to have a
  • 00:21:20
    skilled resource tool where we continue
  • 00:21:23
    to um to bring
  • 00:21:26
    developers in who can contribute to to
  • 00:21:29
    what we need
  • 00:21:30
    so that's kind of what i what i
  • 00:21:31
    currently work at
  • 00:21:33
    but how does this relate to the
  • 00:21:34
    blockchain masters course so
  • 00:21:40
    the msc course is a well-rounded course
  • 00:21:42
    so the students who participate in it
  • 00:21:44
    get a lot of exposure to a lot of
  • 00:21:45
    different technologies
  • 00:21:46
    and a lot of different topics and as
  • 00:21:48
    irene showed earlier there's multiple
  • 00:21:50
    different
  • 00:21:51
    experi different modules throughout the
  • 00:21:54
    year
  • 00:21:55
    and the ones that we basically that i
  • 00:21:57
    participated in this year were
  • 00:21:58
    cryptography
  • 00:21:59
    uh distributed ledger technologies cloud
  • 00:22:01
    systems and data processing
  • 00:22:03
    and then some professional skills and
  • 00:22:05
    ethics ethics and law
  • 00:22:07
    so this is one of the more interesting
  • 00:22:09
    topics throughout my career i've never
  • 00:22:11
    really considered ethics with the
  • 00:22:14
    systems i've been building
  • 00:22:15
    and also uh the laws um you know this
  • 00:22:18
    the
  • 00:22:18
    my previous software experience was in a
  • 00:22:20
    well-defined industry in the travel
  • 00:22:21
    industry
  • 00:22:22
    um and you know as an engineer i didn't
  • 00:22:24
    really have to think of
  • 00:22:26
    the my the code i developed could you
  • 00:22:28
    know have some
  • 00:22:29
    law that i wasn't aware of um so this is
  • 00:22:31
    very interesting and certainly for
  • 00:22:34
    the students that are coming up through
  • 00:22:36
    the ranks working in
  • 00:22:37
    the this emerging technology space of
  • 00:22:40
    blockchain and cryptocurrencies it's
  • 00:22:41
    very good that they have
  • 00:22:42
    an understanding of the law and also the
  • 00:22:45
    professional ethics associated with the
  • 00:22:47
    systems they may build
  • 00:22:48
    um some other interesting things that we
  • 00:22:49
    did throughout the year was we worked a
  • 00:22:51
    lot with the cloud
  • 00:22:52
    so we built some systems that worked in
  • 00:22:54
    aws or google
  • 00:22:57
    uh using technologies like docker and
  • 00:22:59
    kubernetes that allowed us to
  • 00:23:02
    build some applications and deploy them
  • 00:23:03
    using the the skills that we learned in
  • 00:23:05
    the class
  • 00:23:07
    it's also beneficial for us to under to
  • 00:23:10
    understand
  • 00:23:11
    and and also to play around with some of
  • 00:23:13
    the cryptographic
  • 00:23:14
    systems that underpin the whole
  • 00:23:16
    blockchain space throughout my career
  • 00:23:18
    um i've not come from a cryptography
  • 00:23:20
    background i've come from a software
  • 00:23:22
    engineering
  • 00:23:22
    and devops background so to actually
  • 00:23:25
    understand the cryptography that holds
  • 00:23:27
    all the blockchain
  • 00:23:29
    software that i work with every day
  • 00:23:30
    together was very important for my
  • 00:23:32
    career
  • 00:23:33
    and gave me a good foundation of the
  • 00:23:35
    understanding of the integral parts of a
  • 00:23:36
    blockchain cryptosystem
  • 00:23:39
    um yes so throughout the course you get
  • 00:23:42
    to experience a lot
  • 00:23:43
    uh experiment a lot with some of the
  • 00:23:45
    innovative technologies uh like i said
  • 00:23:47
    the docker and kubernetes and these are
  • 00:23:49
    essential to um
  • 00:23:51
    kind of moving the blockchain system
  • 00:23:52
    forward as as systems that
  • 00:23:54
    the engineers build become kind of uh
  • 00:23:57
    you know
  • 00:23:58
    part of the standard software developer
  • 00:24:01
    stack going forward
  • 00:24:02
    um and the msc course will hopefully
  • 00:24:06
    produce a lot of
  • 00:24:07
    talented engineers that have a lot of
  • 00:24:08
    experience in the
  • 00:24:10
    not just blockchain but also the
  • 00:24:12
    surrounding
  • 00:24:14
    technologies associated with it so
  • 00:24:17
    here's an example of one of the
  • 00:24:18
    the assignments that we worked on um so
  • 00:24:20
    this was a data processing assignment
  • 00:24:22
    that i built
  • 00:24:23
    using different data processing
  • 00:24:26
    techniques that i'd learned throughout
  • 00:24:27
    the course
  • 00:24:28
    um basically it was a it scraped the
  • 00:24:30
    data set from the internet
  • 00:24:32
    of the covet 19 cases did some
  • 00:24:34
    processing on it
  • 00:24:35
    and then you know built a dashboard
  • 00:24:37
    technology that served up kind of real
  • 00:24:39
    time
  • 00:24:40
    information and then basically automated
  • 00:24:43
    how it all worked
  • 00:24:43
    so this was a great assignment to work
  • 00:24:45
    on and data processing is not something
  • 00:24:47
    i've done in my career today
  • 00:24:48
    so it's very interesting to use um cloud
  • 00:24:51
    technologies
  • 00:24:52
    uh data processing uh technologies
  • 00:24:55
    and uh you know uh things that i had a
  • 00:24:57
    lot of experience with was which was web
  • 00:24:59
    technology
  • 00:25:00
    so very interesting and going forward in
  • 00:25:02
    the blockchain space it's
  • 00:25:03
    you know the blockchains are full of
  • 00:25:05
    data so it's important that we can
  • 00:25:07
    use the tools and systems like this to
  • 00:25:09
    aggregate data present them
  • 00:25:11
    and and show them to uh you know people
  • 00:25:13
    who need to
  • 00:25:14
    perform some analytics or have some
  • 00:25:16
    interaction with the blockchain
  • 00:25:18
    so block i guess you know coming out of
  • 00:25:21
    the course
  • 00:25:22
    what kind of things could you expect to
  • 00:25:24
    work on um using
  • 00:25:26
    my the company i work for a blockchain
  • 00:25:27
    as an experience we're constantly
  • 00:25:29
    looking for engineers who have
  • 00:25:31
    devops experience data analytics
  • 00:25:33
    experience architects who can kind of
  • 00:25:35
    envisage how
  • 00:25:36
    these new blockchain systems can all
  • 00:25:38
    work together with existing software
  • 00:25:39
    stacks
  • 00:25:40
    and as irene said earlier uh security
  • 00:25:43
    security is a very important part of
  • 00:25:44
    blockchains
  • 00:25:45
    especially if there's a financial
  • 00:25:47
    implications uh like bitcoin or
  • 00:25:50
    ethereum or any um value associated with
  • 00:25:53
    the systems that are being built
  • 00:25:55
    and there's a lot of document documented
  • 00:25:57
    cases of hacks or
  • 00:25:59
    exploits where people have uh left the
  • 00:26:01
    back door open and
  • 00:26:02
    funds or something like this have been
  • 00:26:03
    trained from a system um
  • 00:26:05
    and then obviously there's a lot of
  • 00:26:06
    legal things that need to be considered
  • 00:26:08
    so it's very good that a lot of people
  • 00:26:10
    can have uh you know it's not all
  • 00:26:12
    technical roles in blockchain companies
  • 00:26:14
    and there's jurisdiction uh have
  • 00:26:16
    different rules
  • 00:26:17
    and you know um globally one rule in
  • 00:26:20
    america might not be the same as in
  • 00:26:21
    europe
  • 00:26:22
    um so the industry from my experience is
  • 00:26:24
    expanding rapidly i think we're in
  • 00:26:25
    another growth phase at the moment
  • 00:26:27
    and i think coming out of this course uh
  • 00:26:29
    next year and in the next few years is
  • 00:26:31
    going to be
  • 00:26:32
    a very good time and there'll be a lot
  • 00:26:34
    of positions that will be
  • 00:26:36
    required to be filled by uh engineers
  • 00:26:39
    who have or even
  • 00:26:40
    uh students who've had kind of an
  • 00:26:42
    introduction to a lot of the things
  • 00:26:44
    associated with
  • 00:26:45
    with blockchain technology um it's not
  • 00:26:48
    all about cryptocurrency as well a lot
  • 00:26:50
    of people enter the space like myself
  • 00:26:52
    through the the eyes of bitcoin and
  • 00:26:54
    getting getting rich but
  • 00:26:55
    um from my experience a lot of the
  • 00:26:57
    projects that are being built or
  • 00:26:59
    industries uh figuring out things like
  • 00:27:01
    supply chain or
  • 00:27:03
    you know digital identity or voting
  • 00:27:04
    systems there are just a few examples
  • 00:27:06
    but
  • 00:27:07
    there's a lot of innovative disruptive
  • 00:27:09
    projects being built
  • 00:27:11
    and i think smart contracts and and
  • 00:27:14
    private blockchains and things like
  • 00:27:15
    these are going to have a lot more
  • 00:27:17
    impact over the next few years
  • 00:27:19
    so i think yeah i think we're going to
  • 00:27:22
    see a lot more um
  • 00:27:24
    wave of engineers and and building on um
  • 00:27:27
    systems
  • 00:27:28
    uh over in the near future companies
  • 00:27:30
    like blockchain we're mostly in the
  • 00:27:32
    infrastructure and data side of things
  • 00:27:34
    but uh developers can you know obviously
  • 00:27:37
    utilize systems that we build
  • 00:27:39
    to um you know build the next generation
  • 00:27:41
    of decentralized applications
  • 00:27:44
    so that's pretty much um all that that i
  • 00:27:47
    have uh thanks for your time
  • 00:27:48
    um yeah so i just must say that the
  • 00:27:51
    course is very interesting looking
  • 00:27:52
    forward to year two and currently
  • 00:27:53
    thinking of
  • 00:27:55
    um the the next you know the blockchain
  • 00:27:57
    practicum
  • 00:27:59
    uh so i'm gonna hand over now to the
  • 00:28:01
    next presenter
  • 00:28:02
    david thank you very much uh and welcome
  • 00:28:05
    again to today's webinar and the msc and
  • 00:28:08
    blockchain and dcu
  • 00:28:10
    and my name is david roach i'm with
  • 00:28:11
    america and
  • 00:28:14
    for the last 10 years and it's a great
  • 00:28:16
    pleasure to be involved here today
  • 00:28:18
    um i have
  • 00:28:22
    had a lot of experience in the fintech
  • 00:28:25
    industry
  • 00:28:26
    and the tech fin industry
  • 00:28:30
    over the last number of years so my
  • 00:28:31
    presentation today will be based on the
  • 00:28:34
    fintech industry uh in blockchain
  • 00:28:38
    um i consider at this moment time
  • 00:28:41
    i suppose there's three types of
  • 00:28:42
    blockchain there is blockchain
  • 00:28:45
    for business or for the industry there's
  • 00:28:48
    blockchain
  • 00:28:49
    in cryptocurrency and there is
  • 00:28:50
    blockchain in research
  • 00:28:52
    and um so my presentation today is
  • 00:28:56
    really about the industry
  • 00:28:58
    everyone realizes that there is uh
  • 00:29:01
    blockchain has become a commonplace now
  • 00:29:04
    and people are starting to believe in
  • 00:29:06
    the benefits of solving real problems
  • 00:29:09
    um in the last presentation andrew
  • 00:29:13
    gave a quick definition of what
  • 00:29:15
    blockchain the features of blockchain
  • 00:29:17
    i suppose in a nutshell on the bottom
  • 00:29:20
    right hand corner of this particular
  • 00:29:22
    slide
  • 00:29:22
    i created the acronym of seo sss
  • 00:29:27
    which really means secure efficient open
  • 00:29:29
    scalable
  • 00:29:30
    synchronized and smart and i believe
  • 00:29:33
    this is what the
  • 00:29:34
    industry in fintech is looking for and
  • 00:29:37
    that is why i believe in the next number
  • 00:29:39
    of years blockchain
  • 00:29:40
    particularly in the financial industry
  • 00:29:42
    will accelerate um
  • 00:29:44
    massively uh if you were to
  • 00:29:47
    have a quick look today in governments
  • 00:29:51
    uh blockchain
  • 00:29:54
    connecting with governments worldwide
  • 00:29:57
    and
  • 00:29:57
    as we all know governments are highly
  • 00:29:59
    decentralized and often without
  • 00:30:01
    efficient means of knowing what they
  • 00:30:03
    have spent money on or
  • 00:30:04
    what um they are funding in the future
  • 00:30:08
    and what outcomes have been achieved if
  • 00:30:11
    you were to look at private enterprises
  • 00:30:13
    as an example
  • 00:30:14
    many affected industries will be those
  • 00:30:17
    that have large
  • 00:30:18
    sets of business relationships with
  • 00:30:20
    networks of suppliers
  • 00:30:22
    these are businesses that are driven by
  • 00:30:24
    complex relationships across
  • 00:30:25
    many layers of suppliers so blockchain
  • 00:30:27
    will have enormous effect there
  • 00:30:29
    if we were to look at the food
  • 00:30:31
    production
  • 00:30:33
    sector for example producers and exports
  • 00:30:36
    are able to control what happens during
  • 00:30:38
    food
  • 00:30:39
    production process or as part of onshore
  • 00:30:42
    processing
  • 00:30:43
    blockchain allows effectively and
  • 00:30:47
    efficiently to certify those products as
  • 00:30:50
    uh
  • 00:30:50
    it passes through the entire supply
  • 00:30:52
    chain
  • 00:30:53
    and if we're looking at the telecoms or
  • 00:30:55
    the technical sector
  • 00:30:56
    i mean industry leaders country leaders
  • 00:30:58
    like spain germany and the uk they have
  • 00:31:01
    jointly
  • 00:31:02
    finalized a trial for blockchain
  • 00:31:05
    solution on
  • 00:31:06
    the settlement of roman charges and
  • 00:31:08
    roaming settlement agreements reducing
  • 00:31:10
    capital costs
  • 00:31:12
    for telcos and supporting
  • 00:31:15
    a faster revenue recognition so
  • 00:31:19
    that is really a brief on the sectors
  • 00:31:23
    outside of the financial services but i
  • 00:31:24
    wanted to concentrate today on the
  • 00:31:26
    fintech services sector
  • 00:31:27
    on blockchain as we all know blockchain
  • 00:31:30
    is empowering
  • 00:31:31
    enterprises today to drive greater
  • 00:31:33
    transparency and traceability
  • 00:31:35
    and operational efficiency for a
  • 00:31:37
    multitude of businesses
  • 00:31:39
    and financial services are exploring now
  • 00:31:42
    how to fully benefit from
  • 00:31:44
    deploying blockchain identifying product
  • 00:31:46
    opportunities
  • 00:31:47
    regulatory concerns and the difficulties
  • 00:31:49
    identifying and setting risks
  • 00:31:52
    so if in a nutshell blockchain is a
  • 00:31:56
    digital ledger
  • 00:31:56
    verifying transactions shared amongst
  • 00:31:59
    distributed network of computers
  • 00:32:01
    and some of the areas that we have seen
  • 00:32:03
    of late like securitization like
  • 00:32:06
    payments and settlements inter-company
  • 00:32:08
    settlements smart
  • 00:32:09
    contract testing syndicate
  • 00:32:12
    syndicated loans and digital assets
  • 00:32:15
    custodian custodians
  • 00:32:17
    these are from design to delivery and
  • 00:32:21
    if we were to move on to where we are
  • 00:32:23
    today in the
  • 00:32:24
    area of digital assets in the area of
  • 00:32:26
    smart contracts in the area of digital
  • 00:32:28
    identity
  • 00:32:29
    and distributed ledger hyperledger and
  • 00:32:31
    distributor of apps
  • 00:32:33
    this is where i see the industry going
  • 00:32:36
    and i suppose in the next
  • 00:32:40
    number of months in the next year we
  • 00:32:43
    would look at
  • 00:32:44
    some of the trends that are going to
  • 00:32:46
    happen uh
  • 00:32:47
    in in in blockchain um
  • 00:32:51
    i suppose where i would probably put as
  • 00:32:54
    number one would be the whole area of
  • 00:32:56
    blockchain as a service
  • 00:32:57
    uh by big uh tech companies
  • 00:33:00
    um this is really if you were to look at
  • 00:33:03
    the likes i would say that microsoft
  • 00:33:05
    are at the amazons of this world and
  • 00:33:09
    they are are hugely involved in in all
  • 00:33:12
    this aspect
  • 00:33:14
    and the whole area of federated
  • 00:33:15
    blockchain which is a really an upgraded
  • 00:33:17
    form
  • 00:33:18
    of the original blockchain the area of
  • 00:33:20
    stable coins would become much more
  • 00:33:23
    visible
  • 00:33:24
    uh i mean in 2008 2009 2010
  • 00:33:27
    using bitcoin as an example of
  • 00:33:29
    cryptocurrencies
  • 00:33:31
    uh was highly volatile in nature at the
  • 00:33:34
    time
  • 00:33:35
    so there is an opportunity for others to
  • 00:33:37
    come on board
  • 00:33:38
    and as as of now stable coins are in
  • 00:33:41
    their initial phase
  • 00:33:42
    and it is predicted that 2020 will be
  • 00:33:44
    the year where blockchain saver coins
  • 00:33:46
    will achieve their all-time high
  • 00:33:48
    so moving on uh if you were to look at
  • 00:33:51
    social networking
  • 00:33:53
    uh social networking i was saying there
  • 00:33:56
    was around 2.8 billion of social
  • 00:33:59
    media users around the globe in 2019 so
  • 00:34:02
    the introduction of blockchain in the
  • 00:34:04
    social media world will be able to solve
  • 00:34:06
    problems related to
  • 00:34:08
    all the stories notorious scandals uh
  • 00:34:13
    privacy violations data control and
  • 00:34:17
    content all of that area will be much
  • 00:34:20
    more secure onto the
  • 00:34:21
    blend with blockchain and
  • 00:34:25
    if we move on to the interoperability
  • 00:34:28
    uh whereby the ability to share data
  • 00:34:32
    across
  • 00:34:33
    multiple black uh black blockchain
  • 00:34:35
    systems and networks
  • 00:34:37
    and the area that probably is the area
  • 00:34:40
    where i'm coming from is the whole area
  • 00:34:41
    of the economy
  • 00:34:42
    and finance and how that will lead
  • 00:34:46
    blockchain applications unlike other
  • 00:34:49
    traditional businesses the banking and
  • 00:34:50
    financial
  • 00:34:51
    industries don't need to introduce
  • 00:34:53
    radical transformation to the process
  • 00:34:55
    for adopting blockchain technology
  • 00:34:57
    after it was successfully applied for
  • 00:34:59
    the cryptocurrency finance institutions
  • 00:35:02
    began
  • 00:35:02
    seriously considering blockchain
  • 00:35:04
    adoption for
  • 00:35:06
    for their traditional banking uh
  • 00:35:08
    operations
  • 00:35:09
    and this is where the cost saving will
  • 00:35:11
    be uh
  • 00:35:12
    quite dynamic in in the near future
  • 00:35:16
    uh i mentioned earlier on about the
  • 00:35:18
    governments and the blockchain
  • 00:35:19
    integration with government agencies
  • 00:35:21
    this is really
  • 00:35:22
    an area affecting and how to make
  • 00:35:25
    data management more effective and more
  • 00:35:27
    efficient
  • 00:35:29
    and then the last three areas here where
  • 00:35:32
    i believe are are massively
  • 00:35:36
    uh important to the development and the
  • 00:35:38
    growth
  • 00:35:39
    of blockchain in the very near future
  • 00:35:41
    it's the whole area of blockchain with
  • 00:35:42
    iot
  • 00:35:44
    billions of devices connected worldwide
  • 00:35:48
    means that iot is a target for
  • 00:35:51
    cyber attacks and cyber security
  • 00:35:53
    associated with iot is massive
  • 00:35:56
    so this is an imperative in my opinion
  • 00:35:58
    where you will see huge growth in the
  • 00:35:59
    blockchain
  • 00:36:01
    arena the blockchain space sector over
  • 00:36:03
    the next uh
  • 00:36:05
    short while and finally what's very apt
  • 00:36:08
    for today's
  • 00:36:09
    um webinar is the whole area of
  • 00:36:14
    universities and how we can get
  • 00:36:17
    universities to create the experts of
  • 00:36:19
    the future
  • 00:36:20
    i've always believed and i've always
  • 00:36:22
    been a strong believer in recognizing
  • 00:36:24
    our talent within universities
  • 00:36:26
    so i'm delighted to see the msc in
  • 00:36:28
    blockchain and dcu
  • 00:36:29
    as i believe in the near future this is
  • 00:36:32
    the way
  • 00:36:33
    we would be able to
  • 00:36:36
    look after the talent that we existently
  • 00:36:38
    have and
  • 00:36:39
    upskill it accordingly to become
  • 00:36:41
    blockchain experts at this moment of
  • 00:36:43
    time we've only got a few percentage
  • 00:36:45
    skilled blockchain um technologies uh
  • 00:36:48
    here and if we wanted to fly the flag
  • 00:36:52
    in a much more uh center of excellence
  • 00:36:54
    we will need blockchain experts
  • 00:36:57
    so moving on in giving you a a brief
  • 00:37:00
    description of where
  • 00:37:01
    the advantages are in blockchain for
  • 00:37:04
    businesses in
  • 00:37:05
    in industry if you look at the top of
  • 00:37:08
    the clock
  • 00:37:09
    it'll become more secure big banks are
  • 00:37:11
    vulnerable to hacking so
  • 00:37:13
    big financial institutions really that
  • 00:37:15
    should be um
  • 00:37:17
    and blockchain will make it far more
  • 00:37:19
    secure
  • 00:37:21
    there'll be a high level of reliability
  • 00:37:23
    and
  • 00:37:24
    it'll be very reliable it'll eliminate
  • 00:37:27
    the
  • 00:37:28
    ability to see off cheats
  • 00:37:31
    it will increase the whole network of
  • 00:37:34
    transparency
  • 00:37:35
    it will remove intermediary fees and i
  • 00:37:38
    say that
  • 00:37:39
    because i believe there's a huge amount
  • 00:37:41
    of
  • 00:37:43
    lack of transparency attached to
  • 00:37:44
    intermediary fees in relation to
  • 00:37:46
    custodian asset management wealth
  • 00:37:48
    management world will increase
  • 00:37:50
    the frequency and the efficiency of
  • 00:37:52
    trades and increase the access to
  • 00:37:53
    diverse populations as well
  • 00:37:55
    and locations just as we see now will
  • 00:37:58
    allow more people
  • 00:37:59
    and businesses to trade globally
  • 00:38:03
    and it'll be of greater ability to
  • 00:38:06
    customize
  • 00:38:07
    so the whole blockchain networks as we
  • 00:38:09
    all know at this moment of time can be
  • 00:38:11
    public or
  • 00:38:12
    are private uh with restricted
  • 00:38:15
    membership
  • 00:38:16
    so overall a faster way to conduct
  • 00:38:18
    transactions
  • 00:38:20
    so if we were to move on to a quick
  • 00:38:22
    summary i would see the four areas that
  • 00:38:24
    would determine the growth
  • 00:38:26
    as digital currency record-keeping
  • 00:38:29
    securities and smart contracts and
  • 00:38:32
    if you look at digital currencies you
  • 00:38:33
    see the way e-commerce includes
  • 00:38:35
    global payments and remittance has gone
  • 00:38:38
    in the last
  • 00:38:40
    while if you look at the whole area of
  • 00:38:43
    record-keeping
  • 00:38:44
    in relation to health care title records
  • 00:38:46
    ownership voting intellectual property
  • 00:38:49
    is massive and the whole area of the
  • 00:38:51
    securities world
  • 00:38:52
    where equities private markets debt
  • 00:38:56
    crowdfunding derivatives all that market
  • 00:38:58
    and sector is massive in
  • 00:39:01
    in asian securities and smart contracts
  • 00:39:03
    whilst they're at the
  • 00:39:05
    tail end of pocs at the moment and
  • 00:39:07
    that's going to grow massively
  • 00:39:09
    also so
  • 00:39:12
    moving on i wanted to talk a little bit
  • 00:39:15
    about the opportunity and the wheel of
  • 00:39:17
    opportunity that surrounds blockchain
  • 00:39:19
    sometimes blockchain is seen as a demand
  • 00:39:23
    whereby it is far away and not yet
  • 00:39:26
    landed but there's
  • 00:39:28
    huge amount of opportunities in the
  • 00:39:30
    individual areas within the blockchain
  • 00:39:32
    wheel of opportunities and i just
  • 00:39:34
    brought a few of them there to pair
  • 00:39:36
    today
  • 00:39:37
    and if you look at the top of the clock
  • 00:39:39
    you have the information security
  • 00:39:41
    analyst you have the project manager and
  • 00:39:44
    and the project manager doesn't have to
  • 00:39:46
    be uh
  • 00:39:48
    sort of fluent in blockchain he can work
  • 00:39:49
    as a collective
  • 00:39:51
    uh understanding the straight to
  • 00:39:53
    processing
  • 00:39:55
    opportunities that are arrived at in
  • 00:39:58
    many many um fintech projects
  • 00:40:02
    the research analyst the development
  • 00:40:05
    representative
  • 00:40:06
    the technical recruiter and the intern
  • 00:40:09
    you know
  • 00:40:10
    we have seen so many opportunities over
  • 00:40:12
    the years
  • 00:40:13
    uh working with universities industry
  • 00:40:16
    working with universities
  • 00:40:17
    and collaborating with universities in
  • 00:40:19
    order to get interns
  • 00:40:21
    into the into the business
  • 00:40:24
    and this is something i believe that
  • 00:40:27
    as long as universities portray the
  • 00:40:30
    opportunity to develop
  • 00:40:32
    mse's our degrees in blockchain we will
  • 00:40:34
    see more and more interns
  • 00:40:36
    and the whole arena of data analytics
  • 00:40:39
    data science
  • 00:40:40
    data mining um huge
  • 00:40:44
    there a huge market demand there and
  • 00:40:47
    the marketing specialists um
  • 00:40:50
    to understand the whole overseeing and
  • 00:40:52
    development of marketing campaigns
  • 00:40:55
    um if you look at the designer
  • 00:40:59
    the person who is going to concentrate
  • 00:41:01
    on web sites and the user interfaces
  • 00:41:03
    the legal consultants the quality
  • 00:41:05
    engineer the developer and the
  • 00:41:06
    blockchain engineer
  • 00:41:08
    obviously these are very um
  • 00:41:11
    significant opportunities within the
  • 00:41:14
    circle of blockchain and i just thought
  • 00:41:16
    i'd bring
  • 00:41:17
    a number of them today to give you the
  • 00:41:19
    opportunity to see
  • 00:41:21
    um where the growth plan is coming from
  • 00:41:24
    within the blockchain sector
  • 00:41:28
    moving on and that really is just a text
  • 00:41:31
    slide allowing you when the slides are
  • 00:41:33
    shared to understand what i have
  • 00:41:35
    actually been saying at the last number
  • 00:41:38
    of slides
  • 00:41:39
    and obviously i wanted to put a
  • 00:41:42
    structure i want to put a slide in place
  • 00:41:44
    that would show you the
  • 00:41:46
    the three-tier structures that are
  • 00:41:48
    associated today with blockchain for
  • 00:41:50
    business
  • 00:41:51
    the applications and solutions
  • 00:41:52
    associated
  • 00:41:54
    with blockchain and just take one of
  • 00:41:57
    them there the whole
  • 00:41:58
    area of exchanges payments and
  • 00:41:59
    investments and the merchants the
  • 00:42:02
    brokerage the trade finance the
  • 00:42:04
    financial data
  • 00:42:05
    and you know right across to retail
  • 00:42:08
    banks corporate banks and money services
  • 00:42:11
    and so that is just one uh one
  • 00:42:14
    one one pillar and then you've got the
  • 00:42:17
    pillar of middleware and
  • 00:42:18
    services um obviously you have the
  • 00:42:22
    services software development
  • 00:42:23
    with the apis special apis the platforms
  • 00:42:27
    and the smart contracts
  • 00:42:28
    and then the infrastructure and the base
  • 00:42:30
    protocols under
  • 00:42:32
    public private payments and minors so
  • 00:42:34
    let's just give you an overview on one
  • 00:42:36
    slide
  • 00:42:37
    of the the three pillar approach
  • 00:42:40
    thank you very much and it's been great
  • 00:42:43
    to be involved
  • 00:42:44
    and we welcome everyone to a q a session
  • 00:42:47
    i think we have one there uh are there
  • 00:42:49
    any small medium enterprise companies
  • 00:42:51
    using
  • 00:42:51
    blockchain from my perspective from my
  • 00:42:54
    experience there's a couple of companies
  • 00:42:55
    that we've been working with i
  • 00:42:56
    i can't actually name the names but
  • 00:42:58
    there's some large enterprises we've
  • 00:42:59
    been working with um
  • 00:43:00
    working in the oil space uh who asked us
  • 00:43:02
    to do some prototype work for them
  • 00:43:04
    um so that project is still ongoing so
  • 00:43:06
    there's another question there do we
  • 00:43:08
    have any real
  • 00:43:10
    any real cases for enterprise blockchain
  • 00:43:12
    i guess one thing that might be useful
  • 00:43:14
    for uh
  • 00:43:15
    enterprise blockchain is a lot of
  • 00:43:17
    companies who need to work together but
  • 00:43:18
    don't necessarily have
  • 00:43:19
    systems that are integrated could use a
  • 00:43:22
    permission blockchain where they let
  • 00:43:23
    each other
  • 00:43:24
    participate in their network and give
  • 00:43:27
    each other
  • 00:43:29
    i guess access to the systems whether it
  • 00:43:31
    be for sharing documents or sharing data
  • 00:43:33
    or some sort of supply chain system we
  • 00:43:36
    have another one there can you give some
  • 00:43:38
    examples of blockchain applications yeah
  • 00:43:41
    so there are lots of application
  • 00:43:43
    examples of blockchain navigation it's i
  • 00:43:45
    think david shows
  • 00:43:46
    um in a comprehensive slide there
  • 00:43:49
    there will be application in the in the
  • 00:43:52
    i o team
  • 00:43:53
    in the insurance in terms of claim
  • 00:43:55
    processing for instance
  • 00:43:58
    smart appliances in in healthcare
  • 00:44:02
    supply chain so there are quite a lot of
  • 00:44:06
    use cases for for the blockchain yeah i
  • 00:44:09
    think a lot of the smart contract
  • 00:44:10
    technology is only really starting to um
  • 00:44:13
    to to kind of see its cc developer
  • 00:44:16
    um using it and i think you'll see a lot
  • 00:44:19
    of innovative applications over the next
  • 00:44:20
    couple years as people start to
  • 00:44:22
    figure out exactly how they can use
  • 00:44:23
    these decentralized apps
  • 00:44:26
    yeah there are a lot of research going
  • 00:44:28
    on in the context of smart cities for
  • 00:44:30
    instance the concept of
  • 00:44:31
    how to secure the uh with the blockchain
  • 00:44:36
    the the self-driving vehicles
  • 00:44:41
    um etc so there are a lot of interesting
  • 00:44:44
    use cases
  • 00:44:45
    uh for the blockchain and many more
  • 00:44:47
    coming as i said
  • 00:44:48
    david any thought on the well do you see
  • 00:44:51
    other blockchain technologies such as
  • 00:44:52
    bitcoin going in the future taking the
  • 00:44:54
    conversation that you are the
  • 00:44:55
    finance guy well i
  • 00:44:58
    i have followed bitcoin uh since 2008
  • 00:45:02
    uh and it's real dominance uh
  • 00:45:05
    right i think up to about 2017 then it
  • 00:45:08
    fell off a little bit and
  • 00:45:09
    now there are many other stable coins in
  • 00:45:12
    the marketplace including
  • 00:45:13
    ether um i i suppose it depends a lot on
  • 00:45:18
    uh governments themselves whether they
  • 00:45:21
    want to
  • 00:45:22
    uh become part of the whole
  • 00:45:24
    cryptocurrency field and the world of
  • 00:45:26
    blockchain
  • 00:45:27
    and and i think um it is probably
  • 00:45:31
    regulation and governments are the two
  • 00:45:34
    worrying aspects
  • 00:45:35
    uh as to where the growth will come in
  • 00:45:38
    uh the future of cryptocurrencies
  • 00:45:40
    um at this point in time i i don't see
  • 00:45:43
    it as
  • 00:45:45
    as as a uh as active as is
  • 00:45:48
    uh as his professors to be uh you get
  • 00:45:51
    other people who are making comments
  • 00:45:53
    about cryptocurrencies that they would
  • 00:45:54
    never buy them as part of their
  • 00:45:56
    asset management funds so i think once
  • 00:45:59
    regulation comes in and once governments
  • 00:46:01
    participate you will see a different
  • 00:46:02
    angle towards cryptocurrency
  • 00:46:06
    i think following on from that um uh
  • 00:46:08
    currently i work a lot with lightning
  • 00:46:10
    labs who are developing the
  • 00:46:11
    the second layer solution called um the
  • 00:46:14
    on the lightning network for bitcoin
  • 00:46:15
    and there is a massive there's a massive
  • 00:46:18
    um uh
  • 00:46:19
    thing brewing in this in that space at
  • 00:46:21
    the moment so the ability to send
  • 00:46:23
    value on on chain or off chain on the
  • 00:46:26
    second layer
  • 00:46:27
    for the equivalent of one satoshi which
  • 00:46:29
    is a millionth of a bitcoin
  • 00:46:31
    um as your transaction fee is really
  • 00:46:32
    innovative and you're gonna see a lot of
  • 00:46:34
    stuff in the next year that is gonna
  • 00:46:37
    hit hit the markets i think um yeah like
  • 00:46:40
    i said i'm working with a lot of these
  • 00:46:41
    guys and they actually are building
  • 00:46:43
    a lot of stuff that other protocols
  • 00:46:45
    aren't even considering yet
  • 00:46:46
    so um i think yes for the financial side
  • 00:46:49
    of things but the lightning network will
  • 00:46:50
    have
  • 00:46:50
    a massive change yeah that's why
  • 00:46:54
    and that's why i felt there was three
  • 00:46:56
    types of blockchain i i i genuinely
  • 00:46:58
    believe there's blockchain for business
  • 00:47:00
    and industry
  • 00:47:01
    i think there's a blockchain for
  • 00:47:02
    cryptocurrency and i think it's
  • 00:47:04
    blockchain for research
  • 00:47:05
    and obviously they do integrate and they
  • 00:47:07
    do interconnect
  • 00:47:09
    and they're they are very um forceful
  • 00:47:12
    in relation to when they can
  • 00:47:14
    interconnect but at this point of time i
  • 00:47:16
    just feel
  • 00:47:17
    there is there is a regulation issue on
  • 00:47:19
    a government issue in relation to all
  • 00:47:21
    three
  • 00:47:22
    um but a lot of the blockchain
  • 00:47:24
    enterprises at this moment of time
  • 00:47:26
    i have proof of concepts that are just
  • 00:47:28
    uh at the end of the proof of concept
  • 00:47:30
    stage
  • 00:47:31
    and you will probably see a massive
  • 00:47:33
    development in the whole blockchain
  • 00:47:35
    world
  • 00:47:35
    in 2021 when proof of concept
  • 00:47:38
    turns into commercialization so there's
  • 00:47:40
    another question there um
  • 00:47:41
    what programming skills are necessary to
  • 00:47:43
    be successful in blockchain
  • 00:47:45
    so from from my experience there's a lot
  • 00:47:47
    of libraries that work with most
  • 00:47:49
    most protocols so for instance golang
  • 00:47:51
    java javascript
  • 00:47:53
    uh you know there's a lot of python
  • 00:47:56
    python is a big one and these are very
  • 00:47:58
    common languages and a developer can
  • 00:48:00
    easily use those to interface with
  • 00:48:01
    blockchain
  • 00:48:03
    so if you know one of them it's very
  • 00:48:06
    easy to transition to another one um
  • 00:48:07
    with regards to the smart contracts
  • 00:48:09
    most of these are in kind of new
  • 00:48:12
    languages that are very specific to the
  • 00:48:14
    blockchain that they work on
  • 00:48:16
    yeah they just uh solidity for instance
  • 00:48:19
    but that would be anyway thought from
  • 00:48:21
    scratch uh on the
  • 00:48:23
    program so uh in general it's good to
  • 00:48:25
    have a
  • 00:48:26
    programming uh background because uh as
  • 00:48:29
    andrew notice once you know uh
  • 00:48:31
    thoroughly a programming language is
  • 00:48:32
    quite easy to transition to
  • 00:48:34
    another uh to learn another programming
  • 00:48:37
    uh language simple class releases is
  • 00:48:40
    also very useful java as uh and you
  • 00:48:43
    mentioned and all the other specific
  • 00:48:45
    languages such as solidity
  • 00:48:46
    that this is mainly used on the course
  • 00:48:49
    will be taught from scratch what sort of
  • 00:48:52
    time commitment will the court generally
  • 00:48:55
    um require um
  • 00:48:59
    well it's like uh for in total like for
  • 00:49:03
    a
  • 00:49:03
    module for 7.5 uh credits
  • 00:49:07
    we kind of estimated a total of 180
  • 00:49:09
    hours
  • 00:49:10
    of work so it is
  • 00:49:13
    it is you know quite a strong commitment
  • 00:49:15
    but it is a level 9 uh
  • 00:49:18
    degree so it is the highest
  • 00:49:21
    kind of degree that you can get of
  • 00:49:23
    course except for the phd which is the
  • 00:49:25
    level 10.
  • 00:49:26
    um maybe and you can give an insight
  • 00:49:30
    from his perspective yeah so i i will
  • 00:49:33
    say there is there is a considerable
  • 00:49:35
    amount of
  • 00:49:36
    dedication you need to put into the
  • 00:49:37
    course if you want to really um
  • 00:49:39
    get the benefit out of all the content
  • 00:49:41
    that is that is provided
  • 00:49:42
    and because it's online it's great so
  • 00:49:44
    you can kind of
  • 00:49:46
    work on it when you feel like you can or
  • 00:49:48
    when you have time to do it so for
  • 00:49:49
    instance i'm quite busy with my
  • 00:49:50
    employment working in a startup
  • 00:49:52
    so a lot of my time would be you know
  • 00:49:56
    i guess in the evening or or maybe at
  • 00:49:58
    weekends so uh it's up to you how you
  • 00:50:00
    want to manage your time
  • 00:50:01
    but they're when you when you have to do
  • 00:50:04
    some assignments there are there is you
  • 00:50:05
    know
  • 00:50:05
    a dedication to them if you really want
  • 00:50:07
    to uh
  • 00:50:09
    use the the information that's thought
  • 00:50:11
    and get a good mark
  • 00:50:13
    there's an interesting question there
  • 00:50:14
    from a person who's doing
  • 00:50:18
    a bachelor's in commerce and masters in
  • 00:50:21
    fintech
  • 00:50:22
    and they basically have concentrated on
  • 00:50:24
    their experiences in finance and
  • 00:50:26
    accounting
  • 00:50:27
    and they have zero knowledge in i.t how
  • 00:50:29
    is it possible for me to proceed ahead
  • 00:50:30
    of this
  • 00:50:31
    with this course and i think it's very
  • 00:50:33
    possible and the reason why i say that
  • 00:50:35
    is because i don't think blockchain
  • 00:50:37
    engineers would work in isolation
  • 00:50:39
    anymore i think what's going to happen
  • 00:50:41
    is there will be
  • 00:50:42
    blockchain projects and there will be
  • 00:50:44
    people with all different skills
  • 00:50:46
    required
  • 00:50:47
    in order to get blockchain over the line
  • 00:50:50
    so while she might have experience in
  • 00:50:52
    finance in the accounting and may not
  • 00:50:53
    have
  • 00:50:54
    experience in it you will be able to
  • 00:50:56
    work accordingly together in order to
  • 00:50:57
    ensure blockchain
  • 00:50:59
    is um a secure part of the project
  • 00:51:02
    so you don't have to become a specialist
  • 00:51:05
    i'm not sure would you agree in that
  • 00:51:07
    andrew but i i believe
  • 00:51:08
    it's very much a question of
  • 00:51:10
    collaboration nowadays assisting from
  • 00:51:12
    isolation
  • 00:51:13
    i i think with regards to industry then
  • 00:51:15
    definitely that is the case
  • 00:51:16
    um like for instance our company has a
  • 00:51:18
    lot of engineers but we don't have a lot
  • 00:51:20
    of discipline
  • 00:51:20
    in finance or or accounting you know so
  • 00:51:23
    we need to we need to onboard people who
  • 00:51:25
    are familiar with that to work in our
  • 00:51:26
    blockchain
  • 00:51:27
    space with regards to the course um
  • 00:51:29
    there are a couple of challenging
  • 00:51:31
    assignments that require
  • 00:51:32
    some coding experience with regards to
  • 00:51:36
    the cloud stuff
  • 00:51:37
    a lot of this is taught to you through
  • 00:51:39
    the subject so you
  • 00:51:40
    you should be okay with that the
  • 00:51:42
    concepts obviously are taught to you
  • 00:51:45
    but as i said there is a couple of
  • 00:51:46
    subjects with with challenging
  • 00:51:49
    coding um maybe irene you could uh
  • 00:51:52
    provide some extra information on what a
  • 00:51:54
    student might need
  • 00:51:56
    yeah i see some challenges there in
  • 00:51:59
    relation to the
  • 00:52:01
    even cloud system i think it will be
  • 00:52:03
    challenging to do that
  • 00:52:04
    module without any prior coding
  • 00:52:07
    experience
  • 00:52:08
    and probably in the developing
  • 00:52:13
    blockchain systems module but again
  • 00:52:16
    many of the especially the specific the
  • 00:52:20
    specifics for the blockchain the
  • 00:52:21
    specific languages will be
  • 00:52:23
    taught from scratch however and uh
  • 00:52:26
    i would suggest uh to the person who
  • 00:52:28
    asked this question
  • 00:52:29
    i think um to try to do um
  • 00:52:34
    a course in maybe java or programming
  • 00:52:36
    language to try to learn a programming
  • 00:52:38
    language from scratch and see how that
  • 00:52:40
    how how easy or difficult uh can be but
  • 00:52:43
    definitely like
  • 00:52:45
    um programming skills will be required
  • 00:52:47
    on the course
  • 00:52:48
    um i i don't see it possible for
  • 00:52:51
    instance the final
  • 00:52:52
    the blockchain practicum without the
  • 00:52:54
    programming skills to be done and
  • 00:52:56
    motorcycle systems modular developing
  • 00:52:58
    blockchain systems some programming
  • 00:53:00
    elements will be
  • 00:53:01
    also in the security protocols
  • 00:53:04
    and the the
  • 00:53:08
    computer security won't be heavy
  • 00:53:10
    programming elements it's more about the
  • 00:53:12
    most about the understanding of the code
  • 00:53:16
    reviewing the code trying to identify
  • 00:53:18
    their secure coding practices
  • 00:53:20
    involved or not how to how to modify the
  • 00:53:23
    code to take into consideration
  • 00:53:25
    the secure accounting standards and
  • 00:53:27
    practices um
  • 00:53:29
    but yeah it is a bit challenging so i
  • 00:53:31
    think
  • 00:53:33
    um this is my advice to kind of
  • 00:53:36
    try to learn a programming language from
  • 00:53:38
    scratch and he
  • 00:53:39
    see how well anyway it will be from
  • 00:53:41
    scratch so he see how that
  • 00:53:43
    goes definitely uh
  • 00:53:46
    you will need to get up to speed with
  • 00:53:48
    your programming skills on the course
  • 00:53:51
    um and just to follow on from that with
  • 00:53:53
    regards to the question we answered
  • 00:53:55
    about time constraints
  • 00:53:56
    if you are learning from scratch that
  • 00:53:58
    will also add to the amount of work
  • 00:54:00
    into the course yeah that's a good point
  • 00:54:03
    um there's an interesting one there
  • 00:54:04
    question and i think in the forums we
  • 00:54:06
    debated this a lot during the course
  • 00:54:08
    how will blockchain get around law
  • 00:54:09
    regulation in the future in different
  • 00:54:11
    locations
  • 00:54:12
    um so i'll leave that to the guys if
  • 00:54:14
    they want to chime in but i know i
  • 00:54:15
    debated this a lot with my
  • 00:54:16
    class colleagues i i don't have a lot of
  • 00:54:20
    information on that where it is at the
  • 00:54:22
    present time i just feel
  • 00:54:24
    as part of european law and as as part
  • 00:54:27
    of
  • 00:54:28
    regulation attached to each particular
  • 00:54:30
    country
  • 00:54:31
    i think um it's going to be a a
  • 00:54:34
    difficult scenario to have
  • 00:54:36
    a law that's different in europe we say
  • 00:54:38
    that
  • 00:54:39
    compared to we'll say that law might be
  • 00:54:41
    different in that of the us
  • 00:54:43
    so um our our law in israel are a law
  • 00:54:47
    in in some of the far eastern
  • 00:54:50
    and so it's going to be quite difficult
  • 00:54:52
    i think this is something that will be
  • 00:54:53
    probably sorted out in the next 15
  • 00:54:55
    months
  • 00:54:56
    two years and you will see a huge
  • 00:54:58
    development in blockchain
  • 00:55:00
    because of it um
  • 00:55:03
    at this moment of time i see regulation
  • 00:55:06
    as one of the
  • 00:55:07
    the hurdles that has to be overcome uh
  • 00:55:10
    i don't think it's going to be an
  • 00:55:12
    obstacle i just think it'll be a hurdle
  • 00:55:13
    that has to be overcome
  • 00:55:15
    there's also a lot of work going on
  • 00:55:17
    under standardization and now it's kind
  • 00:55:18
    of
  • 00:55:19
    currently under the development and some
  • 00:55:21
    of these aspects are discussed at uh
  • 00:55:23
    that level um as well
  • 00:55:26
    i think if we had a person from the
  • 00:55:28
    legal world here who has been
  • 00:55:30
    through some of the proof of concepts to
  • 00:55:32
    understand how smart contracts for
  • 00:55:34
    example are going to work with right
  • 00:55:35
    with regulation you would probably get a
  • 00:55:38
    very concise
  • 00:55:39
    answer but unfortunately my expertise is
  • 00:55:41
    not in the legal world
  • 00:55:43
    i'll just say thanks thanks for
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