New Opportunities and New Threats in Blockchain · §Private blockchains will generally be set up as permissioned networks with restrictions on who is allowed to participate, and
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Source: SIA, Blockchain and the Staffing Industry, January 2019
§ Blockchain was the fastest-growing in-demand skill (by freelancer billings) in the US freelance market (Source: Upwork 1Q18 and 2Q18 quarterly skills indexes)
§ Average annual salary for a blockchain developer was between $150,000 to $175,000 (Source: Hired.com, 2017)
Blockchain Use Case Decision TreeAre you trying to remove intermediaries or a broker?Are you working with digital assets (versus physical assets)Can you create a permanent authoritative record of the digital asset?Do you require high performance (millisecond) transactions?Do you intend to store large amounts of non-transactional data?Do you want/need to rely on a trusted third-party (i.e. for compliance)?Are you managing contractual relationships or value exchange?Do you require shared write access?Do contributors know and trust each otherAre contributors interests unified or well-aligned?Do you need to be able to control functionality?Should transactions be public?
Yes? No? Do not useYes? No? Do not useYes? No? Do not useYes? No? Do not use…yetNo? Yes? Do not useNo? Yes? Maybe do not useYes? No? Maybe do not useYes? No? Do not useYes? No? Do not useYes? No? Do not useYes? No? Use Private LedgerYes? No? Use Public Ledger
Source: “Blockchain Beyond the Hype: A Practical Framework for Business Leaders”, World Economic Forum
§ Public Blockchains are completely open for anyone to join with an incentivizing mechanism to encourage more participants, such as ownership of coins
§ Private blockchains will generally be set up as permissioned networks with restrictions on who is allowed to participate, and only in certain transactions
“In the future, we may also compete with companies that utilize emerging technologies, such as blockchain……These competitors may offer products and services that may, among other things, provide automated alternatives to the services that freelancers provide on our platform or change the way that businesses engage service providers so as to make our platform less attractive to users.”
Source: Upwork Preliminary Prospectus - Risk Factors, September 2018
Coming up…§ Leadership Panel: Industry Leaders Peer Into the Future
4:45-6:00 pm | Grand Ballroom 5-6 - Level 4Moderator:– Barry Asin, President, Staffing Industry Analysts
Panelists:– Tom Bickes, CEO, EmployBridge– Ted Hanson, President, ASGN Inc– Ranjini Poddar, CEO & Co-Founder, Artech, LLC– Joyce Russell, President, Adecco Group US Foundation