We speak to Alastair Johnson, Founder and CEO of Nuggets. Nuggets is a consumer Blockchain product that helps users to login, pay and verify their identity using biometrics without the need for sharing their data and protecting their privacy.

Tune in to this episode to hear about:

Alastair’s background and how Nuggets came about (how his credit card was used fraudulently)

What are the problems that Nuggets is addressing - data privacy in login, payment and ID verification - and its application in e-commerce

Customer journey and the points where there will be interaction with the Nuggets app

How does Nuggets work from a merchant’s point of view

Role of the token from the consumer’s and merchant’s perspective

Tech stuff:

Biometrics to capture the data

Data Encryption

Data storage in a private blockchain and using the public Ethereum Blockchain to power transactions

Scalability issues (transactions per second) problem with Ethereum and how that may force Nuggets to move to another more scalable platform

Why the data is stored on a private blockchain and why its not a point of concern

How Nuggets will leverage some interoperability projects like Polkadot and Cosmos

Nuggets' go-to market strategy to drive adoption of use of Nuggets

Competition

Selected for the inaugural JD.com Blockchain accelerator based out of Beijng

Leading the UK-China tech mission - https://medium.nuggets.life/nuggets-newsletter-week-11-were-leading-the-uk-china-tech-mission-plus-alpha-whitelist-news-7f2b181ea0f5

Selected for the Access India Program - https://medium.nuggets.life/weve-been-selected-for-the-prestigious-access-india-programme-f3e250b78181