Blockchain Meetup 3: Hacking the Blockchain

Blockchain Meetup 3: Hacking the Blockchain

by | 20 September 2016 | Events

KEYNOTE: Meredith L. Patterson

Mainstream media often presents the blockchain as a universal weapon against all kinds of fraud and hacks. Our keynote speaker,technologist and biopunk Meredith L. Patterson will take a dive into the security aspects of the blockchain, smart contracts, etc..

Meredith L. Patterson is a software engineer and security researcher living in Brussels, Belgium. She co-chairs the IEEE Workshop on Language-Theoretic Security, having started the field in 2005. She holds a B.A. and an M.A. in linguistics and currently works for Nuance Communications.

We are proud to have Meredith who is known for her work in computational linguistics and its applications to computer security.

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Blockchain Meetup 1: Ethereum 101 – Trustless, decentralized, smart contracts

Blockchain Meetup 1: Ethereum 101 – Trustless, decentralized, smart contracts

by | 9 May 2016 | Events

Dr. Christian Reitwiessner (https://mobile.twitter.com/ethchris), Team Lead Ethereum and co-designer and lead implementor of Solidity, will introduce us to Ethereum.

He’ll be talking about smart contracts, blockchain basics and the Ethereum Virtual Machine. We will create a smart contract during the event.

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Datarella CEO Joerg Blumtritt (https://twitter.com/jbenno) will then be talking about the trend to decentralize services:

With his presentation Decentralized Business – From Dapps to DAOs he’ll be taking up the great success of the DAO crowdfunding (https://daohub.org) which has generated over $20 million (as of Friday, 6 May).

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Hashtag: #ethmuc