We shortly go through bitcoin/blockchain history before trying to guess how our economy/society will be impacted by this technology in the near future.

1. Blockchain: 12 predictions
for a new world
Philippe Camacho
Dreamlab Technologies A.G.
October 12th 2017

2. Who I am
• PhD Cryptography University of Chile (2013)
• Co-founder comprabitcoin.com (2013)
• Research and Development Engineer Dreamlab Technologies A.G.
(2015-Now)

3. • 20years+ experience in Cybersecurity
• Creators of Backtrack (now Kali)
• Train/plane ethical hacking
• Cyber Observatory (Cyobs.ch)
• Top security conference
in South America (8.8)
• OSSTMM, W3C, ISECOM members

4. A short bitcoin/blockchain history
2008: Bitcoin: A
Peer-to-Peer
Electronic Cash
System.
Satoshi Nakamoto
2014: MtGox collapses
Now: Cryptmarketcap
150 Billions of USD
2015: Ethereum
launches
June 2016:
The DAO is hacked
2010: Laszlo Hanyecz paid
10,000 bitcoins
to get two pizzas delivered
from Papa John’s
Feb 2011: Silk road
(drug market)
launches
2015: Ross Ulbricht sent to jail
2012: Wordpress
accepts bitcoin
2016: Enterprise
Ethereum Alliance 90+
members

5. Disclaimer about “predictions”
“It’s hard to make predictions,
especially about the future.”
Niels Bohr.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr

6. Block
Mining
in 1 slide
Genesis
(Coinbase)
Blockchain

7. #1 Marketcap > 1 Trillion USD in 2020
We are not
that far:
150B x 7 > 1T
18 B

8. #2 Bitcoin stops being the first
cryptocurrency (2019)

9. #2 Bitcoin stops being the first
cryptocurrency (2019)

10. #3 A blockchain handles 2000 TPS (2020)
Platform # Transactions per second
(TPS)
Visa 2000
Paypal 115
Bitcoin 7
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability

11. #4 1st smart contract handling >100M USD
with correctness proof (2018)
Applications of smart
contracts:
• Decentralized Name Service
• Decentralized Insurance
• Decentralized Market
• Decentralized Crowdfunding
• Decentralized
(PUT SOMETHING HERE)

12. #4 1st smart contract handling >100M USD
with correctness proof (2018)

13. #4 1st smart contract handling >100M USD
with correctness proof (2018)

14. #5 Company running on a blockchain
worth 10 B USD (2022)
BAT: raised 35 M in
30 seconds.
Current valuation:
233 M

15. #6 Unregulated decentralized market place
handles > 10 B USD (2022)
?
Centralized Decentralized

16. #7 Evil smart contract causes 1B in damages
to a Forbes 500 company (2022)
Blockchain
Evil smart
contract
Victim
“Customer”
Botnet
12
2
2
3
3
3

17. #8 90% of Venture Capital through ICO(*) (2030)
https://www.coindesk.com/
1.8 B
1.6 B
Venture Capital ICO
(*) Initial Coin Offering

18. #9 Estonia runs 100% on blockchain (2035)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/how-estonia-brought-blockchain-closer-to-citizens-govtech-case-studies

19. #10 100% AI driven company (2035)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1XOPIqyP7A

20. #11 All industries are impacted
by Blockchain (2035)
https://ww2.frost.com/news/press-releases/frost-sullivan-identifies-2017-global-blockchain-startup-map/

21. #12 Central banks exist no more (2050)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/european-central-bank-president-no-power-to-regulate-bitcoin

22. Invest in cryptos = shorting on the traditional financial system?
https://www.cnbc.com/id/100597242
2013
2008 >2018
?
THANK YOU!