Seminar 50 -- How the Blockchain Will Affect You and Your Work in HVAC&R and Buildings: Don't Get Left Behind, It's Happening Now!

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Blockchain is likely to disrupt the way that you, as a professional, work in the very near future. In the world of buildings and HVAC&R, blockchain will affect you if trying to assure the quality of a product, project, or building operation. Blockchain provides a publicly secure digital record that is virtually impossible to falsify. This seminar will provide a brief history of blockchain and explain its concept and application so that you can understand the basics sufficiently to be able to discuss it with others and consider how it might be usefully applied.

1. Blockchain Basics

Bruce Billedeaux, P.E., Member