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Legal Challenges

1. How could Blockchain/Distributed Ledger Technology be used to streamline and disintermediate the process of buying and completing the sale of valuable property (for example, a house)?

2. How could Blockchain/Distributed Ledger Technology be used to create a peer-to-peer insurance system, allowing premiums to be collected and paid out in the event of a need for a claim?

3. How could Blockchain-enabled smart contracts be used to improve the delivery of legal services to clients?

Finance Challenges

These challenges were proposed by RBS, our event sponsor.

1. How could Blockchain/Distributed Ledger Technology be leveraged to help groups manage their spending in a secure and trusted way?

2. How could Blockchain/Distributed Ledger Technology help allow businesses to build a trusted reputation (i.e. users reaching consensus)?

3. How could charities use ICOs and Smart Contracts to help people raise money for different causes, through doing actions?

Health Challenges

1. How could Blockchain/Distributed Ledger Technology create a portable emergency health record, giving secure access to critical patient records in emergency scenarios?

2. How could Blockchain/Distributed Ledger Technology be used to build a verifiable, anonymous medical information sharing system for clinical research, proving the validity of the health data being submitted, preventing tampering with results, but not identifying the individual patient.

When considering applications of blockchain in healthcare, it’s important to keep in mind the privacy considerations of this, especially when related to blockchain, where information is inherently visible to other participants in the blockchain (unless encrypted).

Civic & Security Challenges

1. How could Blockchain/Distributed Ledger Technology be used to facilitate and control the issuance of emergency aid and resources to victims in disaster scenarios? People may not have access to official identification, or may never have had this. Charities, government and voluntary organisations want to ensure that the same individual does not claim funding multiple times, and that individuals are entitled to what they are receiving. Donors also wish to be able to verify their donated funds were used properly, and reached those in need.

2. How could Blockchain/Distributed Ledger Technology be used to allow for secure online voting to take place for an election or other democratic event? How do you ensure privacy of people’s votes, and show they are all counted?