Blockchain Applications for Distributed Data | Eur Ing Dr James P. Howard II Blockchain Applications for Distributed Data | Eur Ing Dr James P. Howard II

Dr James P. Howard, II
A Mathematician, a Different Kind of Mathematician, and a Statistician

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Blockchain Applications for Distributed Data

I was unable to capture the audio from my talk, but last Friday, I spoke at the 2019 Joint Mathematics Meetings on the Mathematics in the Realm of Cyber Research research track. There, I spoke about an application of blockchain we had here for using blockchain to supplement the domain name service system. You can see my slides below:

Blockchain Application for Distributed Data

Blockchain technology is a type of distributed database that uses a series of data blocks that are sequentially ordered, and secured with a series of successive cryptographic hashes. All holders of the database possess the entire database and can verify it by verifying the historical cryptographic hashes.