Media Interviews
- “The Blockchain and Us: Interview with Steve Wilson” – with Manuel Stagars, February 15, 2017
- “Blockchain Promises Cost Cuts, But What About Revenue?”, American Banker, December 30, 2016
- “Blockchain use cases evoke hope, skepticism for savvy C-suite leaders”, Tech Target, November 2016
- “Blockchain healthcare promise, problems aired at government conference” SearchHealthIT, Oct 24, 2016
- “The Hyperledger Project is growing like gangbusters” ZDNet, Sept 8, 2016
- “Australia Post says use blockchain for voting. Expert: you’re kidding”, The Register, Aug 22, 2016
- “Fintech, CyberSecurity, and Blockchain’s Uphill Battle”, Powerful Conversations, June 7, 2016
- “Ping partners with Swirlds in a seed investment to ease blockchain limitations”, Econotimes, June 6, 2016
- “Bypassing Blockchain BS” CSO, May 26, 2016
- “Why are Australia’s banks so interested in blockchain?”, IT News, May 23, 2016.
Conference presentations
- RSA Security Conference 2018 “The long road to identity on the blockchain“
- ITU workshop on “Security Aspects of Blockchain” “Security Requirements for Hybrid Blockchain Technologies”, Geneva (via video), 21 March 2017
- IBM Interconnect 2017 “Securing Your Blockchain Network”, Las Vegas, USA, March 20, 2017
- CEN Member Chat Blockchain Revealed, March 1, 2017
- NIST Blockchain and Healthcare Workshop “Blockchain Reality Check” Gaithersburg, USA, Sept 26, 2016 HANDOUTS (PDF)
- Sydney University Business School DISRUPT.SYDNEY 2016 panel “Blockchain beyond Fintech” Sept 23, 2016
- Fishburners meetup, Sydney “If Blockchain is the answer, what was the question?” Sept 8, 2016
- UNSW Law School Guest Lecture “Explaining Blockchain” Aug 26, 2016
- Cloud Identity Summit “There is no ID in Blockchain”, New Orleans, USA, June 7, 2016
- AusCERT “Blockchain:The Hype Machine” May 26, 2016.
Articles
- ZDNet “How it works: Blockchain explained in 500 words”, February 15, 2017
- The Australian Financial Review (print edition and online) “Will blockchain really change business and the world? Why you shouldn’t believe the hype”, October 25, 2016
- The Conversation “Blockchain really only does one thing well”, July 20, 2016
- B2B News Network “The Difficult Truth about Blockchain”, July 14, 2016
- CIO New Zealand “Blockchain: Almost everything you read is wrong”, May 6, 2016
- ZDNet “Don’t believe the blockchain hype: Examining the weaknesses and risks”, April 13, 2016
- ZDNet “Weak links in the blockchain: We’re neglecting the foundations”, March 24, 2016.
Constellation Research Reports
- “Protecting Private Distributed Ledgers”, November 19, 2016
- “Distributed Ledger Technology Labs”, October 2016
- “How to Secure Blockchain Technologies” 30 September 2016.
- “How to Conduct Effective Blockchain R&D” 29 September 2016.
- “Beyond the hype: Understanding the weak links in the Blockchain” 22 March 2016.
Videos
- DisrupTV “Blockchain myths and realities post Davos” February 10, 2017
- Ping Identity “Hashgraph is in Constellation’s Stars” Nov 7, 2016
- Constellation Connected Enterprise Visionaries – Inside The Future Of Blockchain Technologies, Oct 26, 2016
- Constellation Connected Enterprise Executive Exchange – Moving Beyond The Hype Of Blockchain, Oct 26, 2016
- DISRUPT.SYDNEY Blockchain panel discussion, September 23, 2016
- Cloud Identity Summit “There is no ID in Blockchain”, New Orleans, USA, June 7, 2016
- AusCERT 2016 “Blockchain – The Hype Machine”, Gold Coast, Australia, May 26, 2016
- DisrupTV Episode 10: Blockchain Featuring Anders Brownworth & Steve Wilson April 8, 2016.
Blog
See Steve’s collected blockchain blog posts.
- What does blockchain reach any consensus about?
- Blockchain creates order out of chaos
- “Blockchain unblocked” 26 March 2017 – IBM’s Blockchain as a Service running on the new Hyperledger Fabric
- “Blockchain plain and simple” 30 Jan 2017 – 500 words, no analogies, no eye candy
- “Blockchain, Healthcare and the Bleeding Edge of R&D” 11 Oct 2016 – No good case for blockchain in healthcare
- “Bitcoin’s fragile power: It’s meaningless” 16 July 2016 – On key management
- “Order emerging from the Blockchain storm” 6 June 2016 – On Ping Identity’s work with Swirlds and hashgraph
- “Almost everything you read about the blockchain is wrong” 3 May 2016
- “Weak links in the Blockchain” 11 Jan 2016
- “A brush with fame (not)” 9 Dec 2015 – On the impostor Craig Wright
- “The Economist’s take on blockchain” 7 Dec 2015 – A major magazine gets it badly wrong
- “Who buys Bitcoin for Identity?” 29 Oct 2015 – On the mismatch with identity management.
Influence
In June 2016, the B2B News Network named Steve on its Fintech Influencers Index.