Eli5: How Blockchain works.

Blockchain is a distributed database that is used to maintain a continuously growing list of records. During this talk I will try to explain basic building blocks and algorithms of blockchain using examples in Scala.

This talk is not about cryptocurrencies.

Follow progress on https://github.com/mrcmatuszak/blockchain

Session length

40 minutes

Language of the presentation

English

Target audience

Beginner: No need to have prior knowledge

Who is your session intended to

who want to understand blockchain technology

Speaker

Marcin Matuszak (Date Engineer / Ryanair)