Brian Deery is the Chief Scientist at Factom, a platform that stores the world’s data on a decentralized system. Using Blockchain technology Factom facilitates smart contracts, digital assets and database integrity.

Brian is an early innovator in technology. He built a self-driving Lotus Elise which competed in the 2007 DARPA Urban Grand Challenge. The race competition included a precursor to Google’s driverless car. Previously, he served as an R&D Engineer at Pentair, Ltd where he designed and brought to market an underwater energy harvesting device. Earlier, he managed the quality control robots certifying ~$30M of yearly production at MTS Systems Corporation.”

After listening to this episode you will learn:

The story behind how Brian got on the Blockchain path

How Brian identified the connection between computers and money

About how Brian won a Federal Reserve sponsored hack-a-thon

How Brian first met Paul Snow of Factom (then named Notary Chain)

Brian’s view of Blockchains and their purpose

An interesting view of scalability, mining and how this affects control of Blockchains

How there are vulnerabilities in the Lightning Network

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Show Notes and Further Reading

Factom Website | LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook

Brian’s Twitter

Brian on Crunchbase

Factom and the Future of Insurance

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