julianbrowne/dv8-blockchain

dv8 blockchain talk

Blockchain: Secret Sauce or Snake Oil?

An interactive demystification of blockchain and bitcoin

Background

Originally developed as a presentation for a Cohaesus tech talk exploring the myths about blockchain. The talk was designed to explain blockchain from first principles to a non-technical audience.

Credits

• Inspired by Anders Brownworth's awesome blockchain demo
• Reveal.js 4.1.0
• JQuery 3.3.1
• JS Sha256 0.9.0 by Yi-Cyuan Chen
• Pinboard adapted from CSS Sticky Notes by Ray Hammond
• Other sources

Watch

Watch on github pages

Run locally

• Clone the repo

  • git clone https://github.com/julianbrowne/dv8-blockchain.git

  • cd dv8-blockchain

• Install dependencies

  • npm install

• Run the http server

  • ./run.sh // defaults to port 8080

  • Point a modern browser at http://127.0.0.1:8080