Thomas Barker

My thoughts on Palantir and the NHS.

In the 90s, the UN thought a lot about e-commerce and the Internet.

Every agreement requires at least two utterances, an offer and an acceptance.

Let’s try Medium 🙂 https://medium.com/@thomasbarker/sensible-services-or-two-cheers-for-microservices-85c65e3de622

Here is, in the author’s opinion, the simplest smart contract we can write in Solidity that has any use as an agreement or contract. contract MinimalContract { says(String something) public { return; }; } Which can work.

A while ago I was in a group discussion about how to make gold a decentralised currency on the internet.

Like the much maligned GOTO statement, the private blockchain, as a means to data privacy or tighter governance, should be considered harmful.

This is a proposed blockchain powered online privacy standard.

(I am going to assume the reader is a software developer who’s interested in programmable blockchains.

I gave a little talk on Ethereum at the Bitcoin Assembly at the Chaos Communication Conference in Hamburg this year.

For everyone who’s trying to work out how to pop a hash into the bitcoin blockchain.

Don’t be afraid And it’s not that frightening.

The title does have ‘P2P’ in it, but before talking about that, let’s take a few paragraphs about the way the “old fashioned” mainstream does things.

I’m now published in Computing & Law magazine.

Disclaimer: I used to work at Zopa a long time ago.