We were part of Blockchain Mania #12 in Hamburg!

And we answered more questions you could have about BEAT

On the 5th of July, Jens and Daniel set out on the road again to introduce BEAT! This particular event, was called Blockchain Mania #12 and was based in the Hamburg offices of ThoughtWorks Germany. It was hosted by Kiriakos Krastillis from PwC DigiSpace. Jenna Judd also helped to co-host the event.

Jens and Daniel with Kiriakos

Despite the hot summer weather and the World Cup’s football match, the meetup amassed approximately 100 participants for the first anniversary of Blockchain Mania event series.

BEAT gave a half-hour presentation, followed by a round of questions and answers before they continued speaking about BEAT in smaller groups for another 60 minutes.

The resulting conversations ranged from what kind of blockchain technology would be the best for BEAT to the sheer amount of data and the multitude of possible data suppliers. To put into context, BEAT plans to connect both 3rd party providers as technical data aggregators as well as athletes and patients as data generators. This requires high-performance solutions and a large number of read and write accesses. Also covered was which of the existing blockchain and/or tangle solutions, offers the best “fit” for the requirements of BEAT within legal framework conditions.This topic opened a discussion about if the high “fees” for write and read accesses would not accelerate the spread of the system and that long waiting times could be acceptable for some areas, but in other applications, accesses must also be possible on an ad-hoc basis.

Networking break at Blockchain Mania

Some of the attendees, addressed questions about which data is to be stored on the BEAT Blockchain. The BEAT Blockchain ensures storage to all data generated in the sports and health industries. Furthermore, the majority of the data would continue to be located on the systems where it is generated and would merely be connected to the BEAT ecosystem. Many attendees were surprised and impressed that this could succeed in terms of performance for all systems connected.

Various questions will have to be clarified in the coming weeks and months as part of the first proof of concepts. We are always open to hearing new ideas that will make the BEAT ecosystem successful for every user! Attending Blockchain Mania #12 was a great experience and brought us different ideas regarding how can continue to add to the use-cases of BEAT.