Blockchain Technology Partners on their Startup and Key Issues of Blockchain

Joining us this week is the team from Blockchain Technology Partners: Duncan-Johnston-Watt, Kevin O’Donnell, and Mike Zaccardo live from GlueCon 2018 in Colorado. Blockchain Technology Partners is an Edinburgh-based technology startup: • Mission – to radically simplify the enterprise adoption of blockchain technologies • Goal - to reduce the cost and complexity of doing business through decentralization while ensuring trust, transparency and accountability in a distributed world • Focus – providing a production-ready blockchain platform and partnering with businesses to deliver blockchain-based solutions Highlights • Who is Blockchain Technology Partners and Company Objectives • What is Blockchain: Distributed Transaction Log and Consensus • Decentralization of Ledgers and Centralization Weakness (Bitcoin e.g) • Use Cases for Blockchain • Publication Components of Blockchain; its Middle-Ware • Trusted Authorities and Broker Replacement (Shipping e.g.) • Edge Computing and Blockchain Examples • Data Responsibility and Local Blockchains • Blockchain Technology Partners Open Source Model and Technology