Paravane Ventures

12 June 2019


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By Neel Mehta, Aditya Agashe, Parth Detroja


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Are blockchains and cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin a bubble or a revolution? We’ll help you decide for yourself.

What’s inside:

Bitcoin and the blockchain

  • How Bitcoin and blockchains work from a technical perspective with no assumed technical knowledge
  • Satoshi Nakamoto and the history of Bitcoin, the original blockchain
  • A thorough overview of crucial crypto concepts (eg. blocks, keys, mining, nodes, etc.)
  • Frameworks for understanding when it actually makes sense to use blockchain
  • Major application scenarios for blockchain and cryptocurrencies and where it’ll fall flat

Public blockchains and altcoins

  • Emerging trends in blockchain technology
  • What you should know before buying any cryptocurrency
  • An overview of Etherum and smart contracts
  • An overview of the strengths and weaknesses of the top altcoins and stable coins, including Monero (XMR), Tether (USDT), and Bitcoin Cash (BCH)
  • Alternatives to blockchain and cryptocurrencies
  • New kinds of decentralized ledger technology (DLT)
  • The economics of both traditional payment methods and cryptocurrencies
  • Cryptocurrency security best practices and major breach case studies

Private blockchains

  • How blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and traditional banking and finance will interact with one another in the future
  • Public blockchains vs private blockchains
  • Limitations and shortcomings of public blockchains and cryptocurrencies
  • The role of blockchain in the strategy of top tech companies like Facebook and Microsoft
  • Case studies of how non-tech companies are effectively utilizing blockchain (eg. Walmart using it to prevent foodborne illness)
  • Business blockchain case studies ranging from gaming (e.g. Xbox) to cloud services (e.g. Microsoft Azure’s blockchain-as-a-service and Amazon’s AWS offering)
  • Blockchain’s use for big data, internet of things (IoT), and machine learning (ML)

Cryptocurrency regulation and policy

  • ICOs vs STOs vs IPOs
  • KYC and AML laws
  • The debate over whether cryptocurrencies are securities
  • The official stance of various countries on crypto
  • An overview of crypto policy and regulatory hurdles
  • The role of crypto in emerging markets and China
  • Digital democracy and voting on the blockchain

The future of decentralized technology

  • If, how, and when the tokenization of national currencies will play out
  • Facebook and WhatsApp’s upcoming cryptocurrencies
  • Currency tokenization and China’s efforts to tokenize the yuan
  • Blockchain, IoT, and the tangle
  • Cryptocurrencies vs. fiat vs. the gold standard
  • Predictions about the future of money, business, and currency
  • Why blockchains would do better on Mars than Earth

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