The Executive Guide to Blockchain

Maria Grazia Vigliotti is the founder of Sandblocks Consulting, a boutique consultancy specialising in blockchain technology and smart contracts. Her career in computing spans more than twenty years, mainly as an academic at Imperial College London researching techniques for formal code verification and writing AI algorithms to aid in cybersecurity evaluations. She convened and led the development of the cybersecurity strategy for the entire British railway industry and worked on prevention of cryptographic attacks on the European Railway Traffic Management Systems (ERTMS). She has also advised most of the major players in the UK nuclear industry on smart device security. Haydn Jones is the Founder and Managing Director of Blockchain Hub. He has over twenty years' commercial, operational and transformation experience working for retail and investment banks, a central bank, a regulator, a global management consultancy firm and a Japanese technology company. He has run cash management and funding units, as well as foreign exchange and equities settlement teams, alongside leading projects to re-engineer the underlying platforms. He has worked in architecturally complex, data rich environments, grappling with the challenge of reconciling legacy and leading edge technologies across client-sensitive platforms demanding high levels of availability.

1. Introduction.- 2. Distinguish the Hype from the Reality.- 3. Cryptography for Busy People.- 4. Blockchain Fundamentals.- 5. Cryptocurrency Ecosystem.- 6. Blockchain Use Cases.- 7. Creating a Blockchain Strategy.- 8. Smart Contracts.- 9. Regulation.- 10. The Future of Blockchain.