Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

Future Technologies are always to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast.

Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.

We're just around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

Hello and welcome to Future Tech Podcast.

I'm your host, Juliet Lamar.

We have with us on the line, the founder of Connect.

It is Mr. Arjun Bopani, and I can't wait to talk to him

about Connects. Welcome. Thanks, Juliet. Thanks for having you here. Absolutely. So Arjun, tell us a little bit

about, or a lot of bit about, what Connects is. Sure. So I guess to understand what we do,

you probably need a little bit of background on the blockchain industry and about how, some of the biggest challenges that it faces to mainstream adoption.

Absolutely.

So for those of you who don't know, blockchain is a new way to store data in a distributed way. It's rather than relying on some third-party server or something like AWS to save

your data, you can save it in a way where everybody kind of owns and shares a piece of it.

There's a lot of really interesting use cases and applications of this.

The biggest kind of jump forward that has happened is something called Turing Complete blockchains

like Ethereum. And Turing Complete blockchains are basically just shared computers. This is a

really, really cool new way to think about how to make applications on the

Internet, how to create infrastructure for pretty much everything that is shared by everybody.

So rather than having it happen under one entity like Amazon or Google or Facebook, you can build infrastructure that is

fundamentally owned by the public.

Now, the big barrier to blockchain adoption, people have kind of seen use cases of blockchain,

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