Hitchhikers Guide to Galaxy offered an explanation of the universe which applies well for Blockchain:Īnything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.īy explaining that “something happened”, I orient the conversation from “ What needs to be shared and do we trust them to share it” to “What needs to happen (for the interest of everyone) and what needs to happen as a condition of it”.Īs an imagined example, let’s say fake Chinese driver licences were used to acquire real Australian driver’s licences.
The “Something else can happen” is Bob giving money to anyone he wants. The “Something happens” is Alice giving money to Bob. Let’s take Bitcoin Blockchain for example. Internet and Email are both about Information, not process. It’s about conditional chain of events: something that happened so that something else can happen. I chose to explain it in this way so that I can open the conversation about what do we need Blockchain for.īlockchain - and smart-contracts - are process oriented. We don’t need Blockchain to share information Dropbox even outperformed Email for a pre-arranged consortium of organisations at the cost of additional requirements of centralisation. The system to share information between organisations also exists, it’s called Email. That is true, but I prefer to point out that the system to share information already exists - it’s not Blockchcain it’s called The Internet. “Blockchain has very low bandwidth and storing information on it would be too expensive.”
Those who are in the Blockchain space know that Blockchain isn’t ideal for information sharing use-cases. Sounds like a Dropbox style use-case, right? Do you really need to use Blockchain to share information? “We used Blockchain to share XXX information between XXX and XXX.” There is a variety of personal and enterprise pricing plans to choose from.Working as a Blockchain architect I often hear this: SharePoint is available as a standalone service, but can also be purchased as part of the Office365 package.
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