Following up the TUT lecture in early October, we participated in a webinar organised by Anycase Oy, which was interesting to join in with. There were some insightful questions about the possibilities of blockchain technology, and we saw a significant uptick in the use of our own blockchain demo. On Tuesday we are travelling in to [...]
Kimmo and I started out at the incredibly early time of 5:30AM to head off to Helsinki for the IBM Blockchain Seminar. After a slight public transport hitch (the 58A bus is not the same as the 58 bus, for your information) we arrived at the IBM office on Laajalahdentie 23 just after 8:30AM, where registration [...]
On Thursday 6 October I gave an introductory lecture on blockchains. In the first half I covered the history of blockchains, provided a brief simple overview of what constitutes a blockchain, and presented a potential use case involving the tracking of heavy mining equipment and ensuring compliance with environmental and safety legislation through smart contracts [...]
Accenture has recently been causing waves by a reported patent application for a blockchain system that allows blocks included in the chain to be edited later on, thus violating one of the core concepts of blockchains, namely that they are immutable and tamperproof. I've not been able to find the patent application, but the mention [...]
Whenever I try to get a complicated development environment up and running on my machine, I make notes as I go along. This week I've been grappling with the IBM Hyperledger contribution, called Fabric. These are just rough notes, but they may help someone else out, so I thought I'd put them up on a [...]
Venue: Tampere University of Technology, Tietotalo, Auditorium TB109 Time: 14:00-16:00, 6/10/2016 This lecture is presented in collaboration with TUT / Department of Pervasive Computing. The lecture is free, open to the public, and no registration is required. Dr Keir Finlow-Bates from chainfrog.com will be giving a lecture on blockchains at Tampere University of Technology, with the title [...]
My two year old daughter managed to fall off a chair and bang her head a couple of days ago. I was in the middle of a phone call with Kimmo, and had to hang up in order to check that she was okay. There was a bad bump on her head, and obviously she [...]
This Sunday my family and I were at Kangasala church for the christening of my two-month old twins. As I was sitting in the congregation, I thought to myself, "This is exactly the kind of thing that should be recorded on a blockchain" and so a short moment later on I took out my phone, [...]
On Wednesday I attended the Tampere TalentMeet in TalentSpace, organised by TreStart, where I drank mainly tea. Although given the event organisers habit of putting capitals in words in random places, perhaps what I drank was actually TeA. I talked for a short three minutes in front of about 100 people about Chainfrog and blockchains, [...]
There I am, outside the iconic Helsinki Central Station, about to head off to the blockchain conference in the Microsoft Flux center. The center is a strange place - it's a weird castle-like building a short walk from the railway station through town, where anyone interested in technology and forming a start-up can go to [...]