Building privacy-sensitive applications with Ethereum and smart contracts

Abstract

Privacy becomes more important in the global economy which is turning to be more online. Online economy is vulnerable to digital era threads but meanwhile new technologies like blockchain and Ethereum based smart contracts can offer solution to make the digital future even more private and secure.

This thesis will go through the history of blockchain applications and privacy concepts, and Ethereum’s potential to build solutions that answer to complex privacy issues of online applications.

To widen aspects to more concrete points of view internationally operating blockchain entrepreneur and a software engineer were interviewed for hand on experiences of the scene.