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From YouTube: Carolyn Reckhow Part 1 // An Ethereum Interview Series
Description
We sat down with Carolyn Reckhow, Director of Operations at ConsenSys, to discuss how to communicate about Ethereum with non-technical people, how the adoption of the technology will take place, and blockchain applications for the energy industry. This series focuses on trying to explain Ethereum to a non-technical audience.
A
My
background
is
in
the
social
sciences,
so
learning
about
some
of
the
more
technical
aspects
of
etherium
was
kind
of
daunting
and
it
took
me
a
while
to
kind
of
get
into
it
and
learn
all
the
terminology
like
what
the
hash
like
a
Merkel
tree.
All
that
stuff
is
really
foreign
and
being
in
this
in
this
industry
and
not
coming
from
a
technical
background.
A
It
can
be
kind
of
funny
and
frustrating
to
kind
of
hear
all
that
technical
terminology
to
describe
it
all
the
time,
because
really
I
think
what
the
technology
is
in
its
essence
can
be
described
in
ways
that
kind
of
don't
go
into
all
the
choreography
in
the
mouth
and
it's
something
that
I
think
that
you
could
reach
a
lot
of
people
and
a
lot
of
different
audiences.
If
there
were
more,
there
are
more
people
in
this
space.
A
If
your
email,
as
you
do,
is
be
able
to
have
peer
to
peer
interactions
that
can
encode
business
logic
into
a
box
chain,
another
thing
I
I,
I
like
to
say
on
one-liner,
about
like
what
block
chain
is
what
a
cerium
is.
Is
you
know
the
internet
think
about
what
the
internet
did
for
communications,
for
the
media,
for
the
spread
of
information
of
any
type
really
I
democratized
it
right?
A
What
block
chains
are
going
to
be
capable
of
doing
is
essentially
doing
that,
but
instead
of
four
you
know,
media
and
communications
and
information
block
chain
is
going
to
be
able
to
democratize
business
object,
and
this
has
applications
for
the
financial
world
for
really
any
sort
of
industry.
That
has
requires
kind
of
like
complex
interactions
between
parties
that
need
to
trust
each
other,
and
it's
going
to
allow
you
to.
A
Small
contract
is
just
a
piece
of
code
that
executes
autonomous
autonomously
on
a
block
chain
and
the
reason
why
having
a
piece
of
code
on
a
block
chain
is
special
is
because
a
black
gene
is
a
you
know.
A
record
of
all
different
state
changes.
Transactions
that
it
doesn't
have
to
be
owned
by
such
as
institutions,
supported
and
verified
by
community
and
smart
contract
is
essentially
it's
just
kind
of
like
a
little
add-on
on
to
a
watching.
A
Usually,
when
I,
you
know,
you
know,
meet
somebody
or
I
talk
to
a
relative
and
you're
asked.
You
know
what
you
do:
a
sort
of
cocktail
party
question
and
jump
into
explaining
what
black
chain
is.
Sometimes
they'll
go
down.
The
bitcoin
route.
I'll
usually
mention
it
because
most
people
have
heard
of
Bitcoin,
but
the
example
that
I
go
to
immediately
is
to
talk
about
think
about
a
peer-to-peer
platforms.
A
A
A
You
know
you
spend
so
many
hours
of
your
life
facebook
and
on
Google,
and
all
these
big
corporations
that
are
profiting
off
of
all
of
the
the
data
that
they're
collecting
from
your
digital
lives,
and
so
explaining
that
there
etherium
is
a
technology
that
you
know
when
built
out
properly
and
kind
of
web.
Three
right
and
etherium
as
a
global
computer,
allows
for
self
ownership
of
identity
in
a
digital
space
and
kind
of
describing
how
you
know
taking
out
the
middlemen
of
these,
like
large
corporations,
that
you
know
how
volley
for
data
on
these
things.
A
Yes,
it's
in
the
cloud
routes,
it's
on
servers
in
giant
server,
farms.
You
know
in
deserts
and
really
sort
of
explaining
to
people
that
your
data
is
actually
there.
You
know
it's
not
something
that
is
owned
by
you
and
allowing
peoples
of
imaginations
to
grasp
onto
that
concept
of
like
oh,
if
I
could
actually
owned
owned.
All
of
my
digital
digital
interactions,
own
who
I
was
online,
be
able
to
you
know,
give
permission
to
you
know
who
I
give
my
data
to
to
be
able
to
you
know.
A
Yes,
maybe
sell
data,
sell
your
personal
data
to
attention
markets,
you
know
so
ads.
Can
you
know
maybe
be
more
beneficial
to
you
or
you
know
things
like
that.
I
find
that
people
can
kind
of
imagine
that
and
understand
that
a
little
bit
more
readily,
rather
than
going
right
into
kind
of
like
consensus,
algorithms-
and
you
know
the
virtual
machine
and
all
that
kind
of
stuff.