Paper Title: Building Storage Systems for the Burst Blockchain Platform

Paper Abstract: Blockchain is an area of tremendous interest for financial applications. Market researchers predict a total market in the billions by 2024 with double-digit growth rates. Obviously, this has huge implications for storage companies, since blockchain has tremendous storage needs with its long chains of transactions that never get deleted. Fast storage is essential, particularly for often referenced transactions, and low latency is vital. The open-source Burst platform has achieved widespread interest as a way to connect people, companies, and financial institutions, allowing users to exchange value, create payment channels, and build applications that can avoid downtime, censorship, fraud or third-party interference. NVMe technology can improve its turnaround latency and build blocks faster. Standard security protocols allow anonymization as well as protection of users and vendors. The current international situation surely creates an environment in which trust-free transactions are essential, so companies should begin now to establish a position in this important new technology.

Paper Author: Olga Buchonina, Founder, ActionSpot
Daniel Jones, , Burst Software Developer

Author Bio: Olga Buchonina is an experienced executive leader, engineer, and manager in the technology industry. She founded ActionSpot with the vision to build an environment for entrepreneurs focused on Data Science, Data Security, and Data Engineering for blockchain technology. She has presented on blockchain at several conferences including BlockChain Developer Conference and Block World. She has over 20 years of professional experience and holds several patents. She earned an MS in computer engineering from the University of Houston and has worked for Viavi Solutions, Teledyne LeCroy, AMCC, and IBM.

Author 2 Bio: Daniel Jones is a Self-Taught Software Developer and Blockchain Technologist, Privacy Advocate, Speaker, Educator and Advisor, currently working out of Silicon Valley. He writes non-Blockchain applications for a living and develops blockchain related projects in his spare time, included but not limited to chain of custody, humanitarian reliefs, real estate, supply chain, and telecommunications. As an early miner of Bitcoin he realized the need for education in proper crypto currency adoption and use of the Blockchain. Daniel has taught classes on Developing Blockchain applications, Smart Contracts, and much more. He is part of a team which performed an off grid Proof of Life Transaction on the Burst Blockchain.