This document discusses BigchainDB, a scalable blockchain database, and the potential for blockchain applications to scale up and interconnect through protocols like Interledger. It summarizes BigchainDB's approach of applying techniques from distributed databases to blockchains to achieve high throughput and scale. It also outlines Interledger's goal of connecting different blockchains and ledgers to enable payments across platforms through the use of escrow and receipts to secure transfers between ledgers.
2. About me...
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● 2008 Master micro-electronics (KULeuven)
● 2013 PhD on applying machine learning to micro-
electronics design (KULeuven)
● 2014 Machine learning startups (sydelity, scriptbook)
● >2014 ascribe.io - BigchainDB
○ ascribe.io - bitcoin blockchain for online licensing
○ BigchainDB - scalable blockchain database
○ IPDB Foundation - interplanetary database, public
BigchainDB for commons
○ Interledger - the internet of blockchains
Micro-electronics
Machinelearning
Blockchain
My cat
● Dimitri De Jonghe (est. 1984)
I like the potential of new technologies
27. Two ways to scale up
Big data-fy the blockchain
Builds on man-decades of work
Blockchain-ify big data
Builds on man-centuries of work
28. Big data-fy the blockchain
payment channels /
trust lines /
side chains / ...
high-speed
trust line slow-speed sync
29. Blockchain-ify big data
retain big-data performance
Ordering of events by PAXOS-like solver
Natural ordered log of transactions
add blockchain characteristics
Decentralization
federated voting on transactions
group into blocks for speed
Immutability
hash on prev. blocks
Append only!
Assets
Digital signatures and other trapdoor functions
37. Decentralization of the Cloud
Proc’ing
FS Dec. DB
Partly Dec. Apps
Proc’ing
FS DB
Apps
Dec. Proc’ing
Dec. FS Dec. DB
Dec. Apps
Centralized
Partly
Decentralized
Fully
Decentralized
38. Toward a better internet for personal data, the cultural commons,
compensating creators, financial inclusiveness and more.
Blockstack
COALA
Dyne.org
Internet Archive
OpenMedia
UnMonastery
ascribe / BigchainDB
Consensys
Eris Industries
Protocol Labs (IPFS)
SmartContract.com
Synereo
Tendermint
Caretakers