Blockchain 101
This technology is a decentralized database used to make digital transactions between two users without the need for third-party authentication.
What is a blockchain?
It's clear as glass that this is one of the major features of blockchain technology.
What is transparency?
Filament Blocklet comes in this five-dimensional, computer-friendly non-production form factor.
What is USB?
This was the original name of the company now known as Filament.
What is Pinoccio?
Companies are already using the blockchain to track items through these complex chains.
What are supply chains?
This function (and essential cryptographic feature of blockchain technology) takes information, mixes it up, and reduces it to a string of fixed length.
What is hashing?
This major three-letter company has implemented a supply chain pilot using blockchain technology.
What is IBM?
Blocklet Core is not hardware, but rather, this.
What is firmware?
Filament's major offices are in these two cities.
What are Denver and Reno?
Filament has an ongoing engine core remanufacturing project with this major trucking OEM.
What is Daimler Trucking North America?
The author of the original 2008 blockchain white paper went by this two-word pseudonym.
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
IIoT is shorthand for this.
What is Industrial Internet of Things?
Blocklet Core operates inside this three-letter zone on an HSM.
What is a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)?
SWFL stands for this superior alternative to ill-tempered sea bass.
What are SHARKS WITH FRICKIN LASER BEAMS?
This is Filament's primary market vertical.
What is mobility?
Unlike Hyperledger or BigChainDB, Bitcoin and Ethereum are examples of this category of blockchain.
What is a public blockchain?
Some auto insurance companies are considering using blockchain technology plus telematics devices for this innovative new offering.
What is usage-based insurance?
Blockletized assets would enable the _____ to _____ economy.
What is machine-to-machine?
When the company now known as Filament was Kickstarted, this was its DIY product's major use-case.
What is mesh networking?
Eliot and Paul used this robot as a surrogate for a full-sized electric vehicle in an autonomous electric charging demo.
What is a Roomba?
What are public and private keys?
Industrial automation, transactive grids, and the mobility sector could all benefit from these special auto-triggering agreements on a blockchain.
What are smart contracts?
This post-Blocklet Core product would enable broader economic context and a breathing marketplace of machine-to-machine transactions.
What are Blocklet Proofs?
Filament's mission is to democratize value exchange between trillions of connected _________.
What are machines?
Filament's vision is to equip machines with these three human values.
What are trust, autonomy, and efficiency?