Ramping onto the Blockchain: Rewards, Risks and Minefields

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Presented at ISC2SecureSummit 2019 by

Marv Williams

The impact of the Blockchain is beginning to reverberate throughout our institutions and our society in general. From Bitcoin to Ethereum we'll be defining distributed ledgers and consensus protocols necessary to create a trustless ecosystem. We'll be describing vulnerabilities with Blockchains and the associated attack vectors. More specifically, addressing the issues of off-chain to on-chain transactions and the vulnerabilities and solutions. Additionally, we'll address problems with block-time confirmations to real-time events happening in the physical world. We'll be discussing cryptographically association to geographical identifiers and discovering The associated vulnerabilities of smart contracts.