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Are You Doing Blockchain Development? Tell Us About It

rscasny

I have been to three developer conferences/forums over the past year, and I'd say the blockchain sessions for all of them were standing room only. Given the amount of questions posed by the attendees it's a hot topic. I'd say blockchain is still a work in progress for as far as a broad scale adoption.image

 

I haven't seen that many articles yet on blockchain in the element14 community, although some of my Ultra96-V2  Avnet Ultra96 Dev Board applicants mentioned blockchain development in their applications. I am quite intrigued by the promise blockchain has for the security of IoT solutions or general business application development .I've read some interesting articles on FPGA mining (versus ASIC). Specifically, FPGA efficiency and lower power consumption.

 

So, have you been playing around with blockchain?

 

What are you developing (e.g., open ledger, mining, etc.) Are you doing it on an ASIC, GPU, FPGA? Have you used a zedboard for your experimentation?

 

Drop a comment here and tell the community about your developments.

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  • Hi Randall,

     

    I noticed this on element14's partner community Hackster.io (all Avnet, so I think it's ok to mention here?)...

    https://elk.cc/

    "Elk is a development board for building blockchain hardware applications."

     

    Sounds interesting. I still don't quite understand how the distributed data network works.

    I might have to take the bootcamp they mention.

     

    Maybe it'll make more sense to you image

     

    -N

  • in reply to ntewinkel

    I am curious but don’t understand the use case at all.  Why use blockchain if if it is not secure?  Privacy?  This quote comes from down near the bottom of the link:

     

    How secure is the board?

    Elk doesn't have any form of hardware security and shouldn't at any point in time be used to hold significant amounts of (real) crypto assets.

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  • in reply to ntewinkel

    I am curious but don’t understand the use case at all.  Why use blockchain if if it is not secure?  Privacy?  This quote comes from down near the bottom of the link:

     

    How secure is the board?

    Elk doesn't have any form of hardware security and shouldn't at any point in time be used to hold significant amounts of (real) crypto assets.

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  • in reply to fmilburn

      wrote:

     

    I am curious but don’t understand the use case at all.  Why use blockchain if if it is not secure?  Privacy?  This quote comes from down near the bottom of the link...

     

    That's a really good question. I thought that was the point of it all. I suppose one other advantage is the server-less setup.

    Maybe it's for prototyping / proof of concept purposes only?

     

    -N

  • in reply to ntewinkel

      wrote:

     

       wrote:

     

    I am curious but don’t understand the use case at all.  Why use blockchain if if it is not secure?  Privacy?  This quote comes from down near the bottom of the link...

     

    That's a really good question. I thought that was the point of it all. I suppose one other advantage is the server-less setup.

    Maybe it's for prototyping / proof of concept purposes only?

     

    -N

    I think they want to say that you shouldn’t use it as a bitcoin purse. That you have to offload any mined asset to a dedicated wallet.