GopherCon UK 2018 · London
Blockchains as specialized databases, smart contracts, and Go’s role (Ethereum clients, Loom, consensus libraries).
Topics
- Use cases: money, ledgers, game assets, tokenized equity
- Smart contracts: deterministic, events, no external state
- Why pure Go apps struggle with determinism (map order, time, goroutines)
- Solidity / EVM vs Go infrastructure
- Consensus (Raft vs BFT), Merkle trees, storage layers
- Loom SDK / sidechains for scalable apps (esp. games)