Blockchain is the Internet of exchange. Join this session to get a great introduction to the realm of decentralization and Blockchain technology. You will have the opportunity to be hands-on and build a Blockchain during this session as you learn how this emerging technology will impact eDiscovery.

1. Build a Blockchain
Jay Carpenter
DesertBlockchain.com
2020-03-12
eDiscovery & Blockchain Hands-On Introduction
Link: https://iprotech.com/techshow/sessions/blockchain/ https://events.asucollegeoflaw.com/ediscovery/schedule/

2. What is
“BLOCKCHAIN”
?
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3. Agreement & Trust
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4. Build a Blockchain - AGREEMENT
Centralized Agreement: Decentralized Agreement:
images sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regalia#/media/File:King_Haakon_VII_and_Queen_Maud.jpg & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_invasion#/media/File:Stoke_City_FC_Pitch_Invasion_2008.jpg

5. Centralized Trust:
images sources: https://goo.gl/images/J6JPki & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia
Decentralized Trust:
Build a Blockchain - TRUST

6. Centralized Trust:
images sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_Taxi#/media/File:Checker_Taxi_Madison_Sq_jeh.jpg & https://hypebeast.com/2018/2/uber-2017-4-5-billion-usd-losses
Decentralized Trust:
Build a Blockchain - TRUST & INNOVATION

7. Centralized Trust:
images sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel#/media/File:The_Peninsula_Paris.jpg & http://fortune.com/2016/10/31/airbnb-china-business/
Decentralized Trust:
Build a Blockchain - TRUST & INNOVATION

8. Build a Blockchain
● Cryptocurrency is the first killer application for Blockchain
● Similar to Email was the first killer application for Internet
● Cryptocurrency is profound
● Blockchain is even more profound

9. Build a Blockchain - eDiscovery
● Identity Spectrum Broadens - Anonymous to Definitive Identity
● Audit & Tracking Information - FedEx Tracking Analogy
● Constructs Melting Together - TV, Radio, Telephone, Mail, etc. Analogy
● Global Blur - Jurisdiction Blur, No Customer Service, No One to Subpoena

10. Build a Blockchain - eDiscovery - Identity Spectrum Stretch
CENTRALIZED IDENTITY
DECENTRALIZED IDENTITY
Anonymity Definitive Identity
Anonymity Definitive Identity

11. Build a Blockchain - eDiscovery - Identity & Financial Transactions $$$$$$$$$$$$$
CENTRALIZED IDENTITY
DECENTRALIZED IDENTITY
Anonymous
Financial Transactions
Definitive Identity
Financial Transactions
Anonymous
Financial Transactions
Definitive Identity
Financial Transactions

12. Build a Blockchain - eDiscovery - Audit & Tracking Information - FedEx Analogy
CENTRALIZED
NETWORKS
DECENTRALIZED NETWORKS
Send Letter Receive Letter
Send FedEx Receive FedEx
?

13. Build a Blockchain - eDiscovery - Constructs Melting Together
CENTRALIZED
NETWORKS
DECENTRALIZED NETWORKS
Telephone Radio Television Mail

14. Build a Blockchain - eDiscovery - Global Legal Blur
Excerpt:
Link: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/business-law-blog/blog/2019/10/who-owns-bitcoin-private-international-law-facing-blockchain

15. BLOCKCHAIN
USE CASES
?
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16. MONEY
E9873D79C6D87DC0FB6A5778633389F4453213303DA61F20BD67FC233AA33262
Image source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_one_hundred-dollar_bill#/media/File:Obverse_of_the_series_2009_$100_Federal_Reserve_Note.jpg
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17. LEGAL INDUSTRY
Link: https://www.natlawreview.com/article/10-ways-blockchain-technology-will-change-legal-industry
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18. GOVERNMENT
Image source: https://www.coindesk.com/arizona-governor-signs-blockchain-bill-law/
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19. REAL ESTATE
Image source: https://blog.propy.com/who-else-wants-to-modernize-the-real-estate-market-5b1079b752b6
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20. SPACE
Image source:
https://gameon.nasa.gov/2017/04/17/nasa-to-begin-testing-next-generation-of-spacecraft-heat-exchangers-2/ Link: https://www.techinasia.com/spacechain-blockstream-blockchain-to-satellite
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21. Build a Blockchain - Let’s Build a Blockchain!

22. Question:
HOW MIGHT NETWORK DECENTRALIZATION,
WEB 3.0 & BLOCKCHAIN
IMPACT THE LEGAL & eDISCOVERY INDUSTRY?
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23. GENERAL QUESTIONS?:
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24. ADDITIONAL MATERIAL FOLLOWS:
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25. Link: https://coinmarketcap.com/ (March 02, 2020)
Build a Blockchain - Price Tracking

26. Link: https://blockchain.info/
Blockchain & Cryptocurrency
(INFORMATION ONLY: NOT A RECOMMENDATION!!!)

27. Blockchain & Cryptocurrency
(INFORMATION ONLY: NOT A RECOMMENDATION!!!)
Link: https://www.coinbase.com/?locale=en

28. Why is cryptocurrency so hard to understand?
Link: https://medium.com/@mariabustillos/you-dont-understand-bitcoin-because-you-think-money-is-real-5aef45b8e952
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29. Let’s fool a blockchain!
Link: https://anders.com/blockchain/
Build a Blockchain - Learning Tool

30. Unification:
Link: https://youtu.be/gQFpsIdRF6s
Build a Blockchain - Use Cases

31. Unification:
● Transportation
● Blockchain
● Autonomous Vehicles
● Communications
● Finance
● Taxation
● Insurance
● Sharing Economy
● Public Infrastructure Finance (Toll Roads and
Taxation)
● Hackathon Events (World Government Summit)
● Identity
● Payments & Financial Services
● Mapping
● Environmental Sensors
● Sustainable Energy
● Dynamic Electric Power Distribution
● Mesh or Peer-to-Peer Serverless Networking
● Dynamic Broadband
● Third Party Developer Application Programming
Interfaces
● Micro Services
● Traffic Congestion Optimization via Incentives
Build a Blockchain - Use Cases

32. More information:
Link: https://blockgeeks.com/guides/what-is-blockchain-technology/
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33. New Dimensions:
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiguous_image
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34. New Dimensions:
Link: https://twitter.com/JayCarpenter
Physics Social Sciences
Classical Mechanics Centralized Constructs
Relativity Internet
Quantum Mechanics Blockchain
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35. Build a Blockchain - REALITY?
Link: https://www.coindesk.com/arizona-governor-signs-blockchain-bill-law/

36. Link: https://www.congressionalblockchaincaucus.com/
Build a Blockchain - Policymakers

37. Jay Carpenter:
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Jay Carpenter has been an active member of the Blockchain community since 2014. His primary
interest in this space is in the realm of naming, numbering, addressing and identity.
Jay is the founder of Desert Blockchain which is the largest Blockchain meetup in Arizona.
He has taught as an Adjunct Professor at University of Advancing Technology (UAT.edu) a technical
course on the intersection of Blockchain development, cybersecurity and the Internet of Things.
He has an extensive background in technology, entrepreneurship and finance. He is a graduate of
Arizona State University with an undergraduate degree in business with emphasis in finance. He
obtained an MBA from the University of Southern California with an emphasis in finance.
Jay is passionate about the emerging new realms of communications, finance and the societal
possibilities associated with a Blockchain centric future.
Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaycarpenter/

38. Contact information:
● Jay Carpenter
● JayCarpenter@DesertBlockchain.com
● DesertBlockchain.com
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