Why you don't need any blockchain

by Bohdan Trotsenko

I do use blockchain

Reason for this presentation

Ukraine's land registry to use blockchain

Some basic cryptography reference

SHA

Secure Hash Algorithm

Public-key cryptography

a.k.a. asymmetric cryptography

Bitcoin

... and its power(consumption)

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Name Ops, TH/s Power, KW Price, $ Count Power, GW Price, $M
S7 4.73 1.300 500 7'948'165 10.3 3'974.08
S9 14 1.500 3000 2'685'345 4.03 8'056.03
16T 16 1.500 2730 2'349'677 3.53 6'414.62

digiconomist

My estimations

https://github.com/bohdantrotsenko/py-bitcoin

Ethereum

... and its power(consumption)

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  • 6'791'117 * $600 (price of a card) = $4'074'670'200 (for GPUs)
  • 916'800 * $0.08/h = $73.344/h = $1'760'256/day = $642'493'440/year
  • 4 * 60m * $476 * 3.5 = $399'840/h ("value" generated)

DocSensus

How it could be


hash A1 (signed) -> hash A2 (signed) -> hash A3 (signed)							

hash B1 (signed) -> hash B2 (signed) -> hash B3 (signed)							

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