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Blockchain...Time for Clarity

Brian Sletten

Brian Sletten

Forward Leaning Software Engineer

Depending on who you talk to, blockchains and cryptocurrencies are either the biggest scam in history or the future of how society stores and communicates value. As with most things, the answer is somewhere in the middle. At a time when more established financial institutions are investing in blockchain solutions and the markets seem to be on fire, it is a good time to revisit the discussion to talk about the benefits, drawbacks and implications of decentralized public ledgers.

About Brian Sletten

Forward Leaning Software Engineer

Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. His experience has spanned many industries including retail, banking, online games, defense, finance, hospitality and health care. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and lives in Auburn, CA. He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, data science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. He is also a rabid reader, devoted foodie and has excellent taste in music. If pressed, he might tell you about his International Pop Recording career.