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Published inJul 2020
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Ganesh Prasad Kumble
Ganesh Prasad Kumble
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Ganesh Prasad Kumble

Ganesh Prasad Kumble is an expert in emerging technologies and business strategy. He has co-founded, bootstrapped, and mentored several start-ups and initiatives across SaaS, e-commerce, IoT, Blockchain, and AI. He is a contributor to several open source projects, including Ethereum and IPFS. He authored TEXA in 2017 - an ethical AI initiative based on the Turing test that is used to safely assess multi-context robots and AI models in a quantifiable manner. He is currently leading platform innovation efforts at Aicumen Technologies, Inc. and KIP Foundation, building a general-purpose business protocol featuring identity management, third-party services, distributed compute, and immutable storage. Ganesh is also a moderator at the Ethereum Research forum.
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Blockchain data – big data for AI analysis

As you may be aware, blockchains generate enormous amounts of data due to their transactional nature. At the time of writing, the size of some of the prominent blockchain networks is as follows:

Blockchain Total size of the blockchain (approx. in GB)
Bitcoin 323
Ethereum 4,233

Some experts in the industry have speculated that the size of blockchains will soar 10 times more, due to an increase in the number of users and the adoption of public networks in the business-to-business (B2B) landscape.

The growing size of blockchain data enables new avenues of growth for data science. The application of AI and analytical practices on this giant heap of transactional data in the blockchain can create a large impact on most of the current blockchain products. Analytics derived from qualified data sources such as blockchain can also lead to new digital transformation projects. In order to facilitate this, we need a secondary source of...

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Published in: Jul 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781838822293

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Ganesh Prasad Kumble

Ganesh Prasad Kumble is an expert in emerging technologies and business strategy. He has co-founded, bootstrapped, and mentored several start-ups and initiatives across SaaS, e-commerce, IoT, Blockchain, and AI. He is a contributor to several open source projects, including Ethereum and IPFS. He authored TEXA in 2017 - an ethical AI initiative based on the Turing test that is used to safely assess multi-context robots and AI models in a quantifiable manner. He is currently leading platform innovation efforts at Aicumen Technologies, Inc. and KIP Foundation, building a general-purpose business protocol featuring identity management, third-party services, distributed compute, and immutable storage. Ganesh is also a moderator at the Ethereum Research forum.
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