Ask HN: What blockchain or crypto related companies have offices in London? I'd like to work in something blockchain / crypto related for my next job, but I'm not sure what companies in London are doing blockchain / crypto. I've found the main ones, namely Blockchain & Consensys, but besides that, I haven't found any bigger name players with offices in London. Hoping I can outsource that to Hacker News? |
I'm huge fan of Bitcoin as a worldwide store of value. I dont know if altcoins have much purpose.
Blockchain enables decentralized verification. This means you have ~7 computers that all agree that data that was submitted was real.
This makes sense for currency, voting, and timestamps. I dont know if it makes sense for things like:
>Social Media
>Medical Records
>Logistics(because garbage in garbage out)
>video games
>videos/media
Because why would facebook lie about your 4th of july photos? Why would steam lie about your saved game?
If they did, people might pay 7 computers to signoff on data. This is expensive and time consuming.
If I have a bad understanding of the potentials of blockchain, someone please correct me, I'd rather be correct than wrong. I have been working on my own finance tech and I decided against blockchain for the expenses described.