General Lecture on Blockchain for Tampere University

Today I gave a lecture on Blockchain for the Emerging Technologies group at Tampere University.

The focus is less on how blockchain technology works, and more on the problems it aims to solve, and why it is significant, and so I talked more about the history, psychology and sociology of blockchain, rather than going into computer science, cryptography, or consensus algorithms.

I place a copy here for anybody who would like a gentle introduction to the topic (and for anyone who meant to be at the lecture, but overslept or forgot).