James Allardice
orangejellyfish
James is a senior engineer with several years experience building single page web apps with Node.js and a variety of front-end technologies. He’s the co-founder of orangejellyfish, a software consultancy based in London with a passion for JavaScript, open source software and the cloud. In his spare time he enjoys answering tricky questions on Stack Overflow where he’s built up a reputation as a JavaScript expert.
Blockchain. Is there likely to be a bigger buzzword over the next few years? As more and more cryptocurrencies make their debuts, the underlying technology is starting to mature and businesses from a wide range of industries are starting to take note.
This talk will explore some of the key concepts from a JavaScript point of view. We'll start by putting together a simple blockchain, progress to adding peer-to-peer networking to allow the nodes in our network to communicate, proof of work so that those nodes can trust the data they receive, and finally a transaction system to put that blockchain to use.
You'll go away with a solid understanding of core blockchain and cryptocurrency concepts that should give you a great head start as we head into a landscape increasingly dominated by such technologies.