Building Africa’s Bitcoin Infrastructure

Bitcoin & IoT

About Me• Deeply involved in Bitcoin since July 2013

• Published 4 whitepapers & 1 book

• 41 Bitcoin Answers on Quora

• Became a Bitcoin core developer in May 2014

• Started Bitcoin Dictionary, BitFinance

• Contributed to several open source Cryptocurrency-related projects

What is IoT?• Devices

• Connected

• Sharing Information

What is Bitcoin?• Decentralised

• Digital

• Money

Centralised System

Decentralised System

What is the Blockchain?

• Distributed database

• Maintains growing list of data records

• Tamper proof

Why Bitoicn

• Transact in trustless networks 

• Smart contracts 

• Cut out the middleman 

• Micro-transactions 

• Censorship resistant 

• Permission-less Innovation

What this means for Devices

• Track the unique history of devices

• Autonomity

• Proof of life in manufacturing

Examples

Examples

Examples

Examples

Some Possible Future Applications

• DACS

• Friendly AI

• Blockchain Deep Learning

Questions