As a Design Strategist at Consensys, Katie spends her waking hours trying to understand and empathize with people to design and deliver delightful experiences. Katie's background at the intersection of Innovation Strategy, Human-Centered Design, Psychology, and Engineering uniquely positions her to work with all types of teams to imagine more compelling products, services, spaces, and experiences.

When she's not working, Katie can be found climbing mountains, traveling to far off places, trying new foods, reading, or singing lead in Boulder's 80's rock band, Sonic Arcade.

He has been heavily involved in blockchain technology and research since 2015, focused on understanding the technology and the security implications that these technologies will have on the future of digital currency. Greg is a very active member of the Denver information security community who loves to give back and support the industry however he can.

Greg is also designing the DISCON Capture the Coin event where a smart contract can be hacked to win Ethereum prize. More information on this will be released in the coming weeks!

Greg Fitzgerald is the principal architect of Solana. Formerly of Qualcomm's Office of the Chief Scientist, Greg has explored the full landscape of embedded systems. He created an bidirectional RPC bridge between C and Lua for the BREW operating system, helped launch the ARM backend for the LLVM compiler toolchain, and published a variety of open source projects including a streaming LLVM optimizer in Haskell, license analysis tooling in Python, and a reactive web framework in TypeScript. If you have time to burn, ask him "Why Rust?" We dare you.

He is an active member of the WY Blockchain Coalition and helped bring 5 landmark pieces of legislation into WY, and the U.S. for an Open Blockchain and definitions of a Utility Token - as a unit of value for purchase of goods and services - not cryptocurrency. This is creating new space for blockchain innovation outside the boundaries of a security.

He was part of a legislative team that tried to bring the Open Blockchain/Utility Token/ Virtual Currency Money Transmitter Exemption Bill (HB18-1426) into Colorado’s General Assembly to create a clear regulatory and legislative framework for entrepreneurs seeking to build their businesses in Colorado. This bill was introduced mid-session and made considerable progress but failed in the 3rd reading (final) of the Senate by 1 switch vote 2018 General Assembly.

Paul is an Honors graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Fintech/Blockchain Certificate Program, has his MBA in Entrepreneurship and Finance from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business, Babson College and is a Honors graduate of Northeastern University, College of Health Sciences.

He is also an Instructor at Harvard University’s Graduate Extension School and co-teaches a course on “Breakthrough Innovation in Blockchain Technology”

Paul spent more than 10 years at the International Consulting firms of Ernst & Young and Accenture as a Senior Manager in the Healthcare and Emerging Technology Practice of Ernst & Young, LLP and a Senior Manager, Healthcare Life Sciences, at Accenture, Inc. He was a member of the International Blockchain Lab for Philips Healthcare, in the Netherlands -examining the impact of Blockchain across all of Philips product Lines - globally. He is presently a member of the Hyperledger (Linux Foundation Open Source) Healthcare Workgroup and the Global Blockchain Business Council.

Michele is a Colorado native and 2x entrepreneur with unyielding ambition and a strong drive for success. She is the co-founder of RevoKind (Revolutionary Humankind) which is an intelligent internet infrastructure that uniquely combines blockchain and artificial intelligence into a spatially-mapped platform called the RevoVerse.

Michele is passionate about social impact and the potential for blockchain to empower the individual. Recently named one of Colorado’s Top 20 Female Founders to Watch in 2018, she brings energy and enthusiasm to everything she does.

Justin has a diverse career that has spanned seventeen years with a focus on a multitude of technical, urban development, and business-related roles in both the for-profit and non-profit schemes. He has been committed to personal and professional development while in these roles which has allowed him to attain a high level of success in his career. This has included starting various businesses, assisting business start-ups, key roles in development of multi-billion dollar urban developments, and becoming an integral leader in multi-million dollar fortune 500 companies at the executive level. Justin has also assisted small to large corporations develop project management platforms, technical platforms, as well as team structures that have led to successful outcomes and an increase in both effective leadership and company revenue generation.

Kevin believes strongly that the future of work is unbundled; the future of knowledge work will be driven by decentralization, community, and emergent collaboration. Gitcoin a one-stop shop that gives Software Developers the skills & connections to survive and thrive in this new blockchain ecosystem. You can find out more about Gitcoin here and Kevin at owocki.com

Talk Abstract: Jordan discusses why game theory is such a hot topic in this space, and how it is applied in the blockchain space. This includes analysis of previous and current projects with a focus on how game theory is used to incentivize correct behavior.

Bio: Jordan leads a team of developers from 9 countries which include China, Belarus, and the United States. Managing a team of talented developers across time zones, he is responsible for delegating tasks according to each developer’s strength while ensuring that deliverables meet scheduled deadlines. He is involved in designing and the implementation of the blockchain infrastructure such as the consensus layer, distributed ledger architecture, and smart contract virtual machine.

Jordan also serves as the co-chairman of the Smart Contracts Alliance under the Chamber of Digital Commerce. The alliance is aimed at promoting the recognition and adoption of smart-contracts technology by addressing issues such as interoperability and policy. Jordan built his reputation in the blockchain community by uncovering scams, viruses and other malicious activities in various cryptocurrencies. Jordan is a self-taught developer who built a custom operating system for an android app.

Experienced corporate, startup and tech attorney changing the traditional legal services experience.

His primary concerns at the moment are a.) how to successfully scale the local and global Ethereum community, and b.) how to preserve the foundation of respectful, academic discourse that makes Ethereum such a cool place to be. Kent works in the blockchain industry full-time, and has a Master's Degree in Political Science from C.U. Denver.

Aari is the co-founder and CEO of Jalapeño Inventive. He helped launch the company in Fort Collins, Colo. in 2014 with the desire to make cryptocurrency accessible to the masses. A leader of the Colorado blockchain community, Aari began trading in cryptocurrencies for more than four years ago. Prior to Jalapeño, Aari spent 12 years in the radio-chemical and nuclear medicine industries as a Cyclotron and Customer Service Engineer for Siemens Healthcare.

Keagan is a Senior Developer at SALT Lending and an active member in the emerging trustware industry. On a crusade against untrustworthy and unreliable software, he has been a strong advocate of using sound theory to build useful and practical systems. Professionally he enjoys functional programming and applied cryptography, and is motivated by the pursuit of creating a more free society. Personally he spends his time climbing rocks, WCS Dancing with his wife, and enjoying the Colorado outdoors.

Talk Abstract: Software has a very diverse set of purposes and problem constraints. It is not uncommon to hear "we need to use the right tool for the right job". But how do we decide what the right tool is? What makes something better or worse suited for a problem domain. This question has been debated from time to time, but has largely fell quiet as the world has been dominated by web application software development. Trustware (commonly described as "blockchain technology") is qualitatively different than any other software that has ever been written in some key ways. Due to the high stakes nature of the difficulty in upgrading it, in conjunction with the vast value that we have chosen to endow these systems with, nonchalant attitudes of "F*** it ship it" are not tenable in this space. We need to start treating our industry with more humility and respect, and adopt tools, techniques and practices that are aligned with the seriousness of what we are building. This talk will talk about the benefits of things such as Haskell, Rust, and other such languages that brutally require thoroughly thinking about details, in stark contrast to things such as javascript. This talk will not leave people with the knowledge of being able to use any of these tools, but rather with a motivation for exploring them as the constraints of our industry evolve.

Kylen McClintock Co-Founder of Blockchain for Sustainable Development Proof of Impact at Flux Kylen founded AirBespoke, a wearable technology company while earning degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Technology Management from the Colorado School of Mines.

He has traveled and lived extensively throughout the developing world advising startups and nonprofits on creating impactful blockchain models. He is developing a Proof of Impact model for the Flux protocol to assist the billion subsistence farmers around the world that currently lack meaningful insights to improve their harvests. Flux is a new interoperable environmental data standard leveraging an open hardware protocol for distributed intelligence.

Kylen Co-Founded Blockchain for Sustainable Development B4SD.org to promote UN Sustainable Development goal attainment through applications of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies. B4SD is open to partnerships with select blockchain projects seeking to create measurable social and environmental impact.

Ethan Bennett joined MakerDAO after meeting the team at ETHDenver, and he works primarily on a JavaScript library that will help developers build dapps on Maker's smart contract architecture. He's been annoying his friends about blockchain since he was learning to code at Turing School of Software and Design.

Ethan is most excited about using blockchain for social impact and financial inclusion, and he's bullish on the growing Colorado blockchain scene because, from the perspective of a guy who's trying to set achievable goals, Subarus are obviously superior to Lambos.

Jonny is a designer with experience in Product, UX, UI, and Visual Design with a career beginning in Advertising Art Direction at the University of Texas. After working on a number of Fortune 500 brands, Jonny made the leap to products when he became the creative director of a budding sports app startup. Jonny has also obtained his Master's in Digital Experience Design from Hyper Island where he wrote his thesis on the topic of design, disruption, and blockchain.

Jonny continued his blockchain work at IBM Blockchain designing Supply Chain Solutions that leveraged Hyperledger Fabric. Jonny currently works on the future of Identity on the decentralized web at uPort (ConsenSys). This work has him focusing on the intersection of security, privacy, transparency, and usability. Jonny is passionate making the promises of cutting-edge technologies, like blockchain, accessible to everyone.

Chelsea Rustrum explores shared ownership and value distribution through the lens of the sharing economy and blockchain technology. She’s the author of It’s a Shareable Life, the founder of Blockchain for Good, a social and educational series, and the co-founder of Blox 7, a new economy storytelling agency.

Chelsea grew up a teenage entrepreneur building businesses online from middle school onward. Later she understood how sharing time, space, and resources could transform human relationships and exchange. Today, she works toward creating systems, structures, and financial models that reinforce our interdependence. To that end, she’s working on a collaborative Blockchain Code of Ethics to program the future with collectively aligned values.

She has also advised dozens of marketplaces and has spoken to corporate audiences such as PwC and J&J, helping organizations understand the changing, often disruption nature of innovation in business. She’s also contributed to articles in Inc. Magazine, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Wired, Forbes, and The Economist.

As the leader of the front end development team at Ujo, Kyle is afforded the ability to dabble across several domains. After spending several years honing skills as a software engineer while also pursuing a career in the New York City music scene, his passions collided with the opportunity to change the landscape of the music industry. A true believer in user experience design and the blockchain as an instrument of change for the entertainment industry.

Talk abstract: Though super computers have been built for over 50 years, it took the coordinated processing and socioeconomic phenomenon of bitcoin and the blockchain PoW algorithm to truly give us this next generation of commoditized data processing.

Bio: A favorite is about his first notable GPU build in ~1997 for a University professor that was running NASTRAN, a finite element analysis program developed by NASA. In Jason's words "We built an Intel Pentium II MMX ( with L1 cache of 16kb), megabytes of ram and hard disk space, and suspiciously a Matrox Millenium video card. My coworkers were thrilled, the sales guy made a fortune(I am sure) but we burned it in playing Doom. So, I get the job of delivering the machine. It was great and not really what I expected. He's there eagerly awaiting the delivery of his new computer. I set it up get him logged in. He then opens a cmd prompt, inserts a floppy disk and runs a simple CAD simulation command. We sit there and literally in the command window is line data, 1 Mississippi.. line data 1 Mississippi, ..line data 1 Mississippi, the professor looks back at me, smiles, and says "man that's fast". I just gave him the nod said I am headed out, and left while he continued to watch line data, 1 Mississippi.. line data 1 Mississippi, ..line data 1 Mississippi... sweet"

Many years and projects later, Jason remembers the conversation when he first heard of "bitcoin mining" with a colleague of his. Colleague said "I have been mining bitcoin with video hardware kinda like playing a game". Jason thought hmm, really?, and then immediately rolled up his sleeves to provide his friend with a GPU accelerated Windows Hyper-V Workstation. Friend was impressed, and Jason's appetite for bitcoin mining began.

By this point in time Jason had already been heating his house by running FEM simulation hardware and encryption services and regularly had a utility bill of >2.5X his neighborhood average. Jason then started mixing in bitcoin mining.

Blockchain and the emergence of cryptocurrencies has helped coordinated performance computing in so many ways. OpenCL and NVidia grid computing's successes can directly correlate to the emergence of crypto-mining. Now an ASIC the size of a thumb drive can SHA256 work at gigahash rates!

Bio: Brian Baker is the CEO of Rebel, a product innovation company headquartered in Boulder, Colorado with offices in San Francisco and Hong Kong.

Rebel has worked in commercial banking for 20 years, and crypto for six years. Their focus is true user-experience and how digital platforms can grow with time and new innovations.

Brian was named ‘Inventor of the Year’ in Colorado and is an Innovation Judge for the International Consumer Electronics Show. Brian holds several industry accolades including various Red Dot awards as well as 'Best in Show' at CES and 'Best of the Web' from both Yahoo and Forbes.com.

Brian speaks internationally on product design and manufacturing, and his software and consumer-tech work is seen by 90% of Americans every day.

Maria started her journey into crypto with M&A PR Studio, consulting blockchain startups on public relations. She told the stories of tech companies who were preparing or running an ICO. Besides PR, as a founder and lawyer at Crypto PR Lab, Maria also applies her legal skills in the crypto space supporting with regulatory. She worked as an attorney in merging and acquisitions and banking law for Clifford Chance and Gowling WLG. Then, she advised Ultra High Net Worth individuals as part of UBS and HSBC private banks in Switzerland and Monaco.

Masha also knows how to make your startup part of the elite World Economic Forum in Davos

Masha graduated from Sorbonne and UC Berkeley. Masha loves snowboarding. She used to be part of the Russian Olympic Team and represented Russia in Winter Olympic Games 2006 as the youngest participant in snowboarding half-pipe.

Talk Abstract: Real Estate is the largest asset class in the world, with total assets in 2016 estimated at $191 trillion dollars. We are actively trying to move the industry towards mass adoption of blockchain technology and smart contract use. We are leading the way in educating the real estate community in Colorado. Land Title is the only title company in Colorado that will insure true cryptocurrency real estate transactions. Presented on this topic over 20 times to Brokerages, Lenders, Title Companies, Associations and Attorneys. We are building a foundation for how smart contracts will integrate into their respective services and how to handle the inflow of cryptocurrency into the real estate space.

Our talk will focus on the results we have made in the Real Estate industry so far, what some of the big issues facing our industry are in adopting these technologies and delve into property purchases using cryptocurrency. We will provide the audience with an overview of how blockchain technology will transform the title commitment process and what role smart contracts, tokenization of Real Estate investments and property listing databases will play in transforming the industry.

Bio:Jim is ranked in the top 5% of 86,000 worldwide Real Estate agents who work for Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage. Based out of the Boulder office, Jim has a long history of helping investors buy and sell homes along the Front Range, including transactions funded with Bitcoin.

Before working in the Real Estate industry, he worked in healthcare technology and Internet focused companies with notable accomplishments including co-founding the Colorado Chapter of Microsoft Certified Partners and co-founding one of the first SaaS supply chain management software companies, where he raised seven figure investments from angel investors and ultimately venture capital prior to exiting.

Talk Abstract: Real Estate is the largest asset class in the world, with total assets in 2016 estimated at $191 trillion dollars. We are actively trying to move the industry towards mass adoption of blockchain technology and smart contract use. We are leading the way in educating the real estate community in Colorado. Land Title is the only title company in Colorado that will insure true cryptocurrency real estate transactions. Presented on this topic over 20 times to Brokerages, Lenders, Title Companies, Associations and Attorneys. We are building a foundation for how smart contracts will integrate into their respective services and how to handle the inflow of cryptocurrency into the real estate space.

Our talk will focus on the results we have made in the Real Estate industry so far, what some of the big issues facing our industry are in adopting these technologies and delve into property purchases using cryptocurrency. We will provide the audience with an overview of how blockchain technology will transform the title commitment process and what role smart contracts, tokenization of Real Estate investments and property listing databases will play in transforming the industry.

Bio: Anthony is the sales rep for Land Title out of Boulder. He was instrumental in transforming Land Title into the only Colorado title company that will insure true cryptocurrency Real Estate transactions. He has a background in Data Analytics and over 5 years of experience in the real estate industry. As an early proponent of cryptocurrency such as Monero and Ethereum, Anthony has made it his mission to introduce blockchain technologies into the Real Estate Industry.

Real Estate has a total worldwide value of $196 trillion, making it the largest asset class globally. As Anthony sees it, this industry will realize a greater impact from blockchain and smart contract technologies than any other. Currently, he spends much of his time evangelizing blockchain, cryptocurrencies and smart contracts by educating Real Estate brokerages, attorneys, associations, title companies and mortgage providers on the most up to date topics and keeps Land Title on the cutting edge of the Real Estate industry. When he is not talking about blockchain technology, he speaks on business development, title insurance and real estate analytics.

Charles Hoskinson is a Colorado-based technology entrepreneur and mathematician. He attended Metropolitan State University of Denver and University of Colorado at Boulder to study Analytic Number Theory before moving into cryptography through industry exposure.

His professional experience includes founding three cryptocurrency related start-ups - Invictus Innovations, Ethereum and IOHK - and he has held a variety of colorful positions in the public and private sector. He was the founding chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation’s education committee and established the Cryptocurrency Research Group in September of 2013.

His current projects focus on education of cryptocurrency, evangelism of decentralization and making cryptographic tools easier to use for the mainstream. This includes leading the research, design and development of Cardano, a third-generation cryptocurrency that was launched in September 2017.

Larkin Reynolds is an attorney practicing in technology and entrepreneurship. She was previously in-house counsel with Visa, Inc., an associate at WilmerHale LLP, and a legal fellow at the Brookings Institution focusing on national security law and enemy combatant detention policy.

Larkin holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she served as a founding editor of the Harvard National Security Journal and interned with the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps, and the National Security Division of the Department of Justice. She also has a B.A. in international relations from New York University.

Talk Abstract: Leveraging blockchain, AI, AR/VR, and IoT technologies to create a more efficient, meritocratic, and human-centered form of work.

BIO: Ben Stewart is a co-founder and CTO of Blackbox AI and board member of the Blackbox Foundation. We are building a more efficient and meritocratic form of “work”. A kind of work that empowers workers, powered by artificial intelligence and created on the blockchain to ensure fair, inclusive, and decentralized progress.

Ben's background is rooted in Finance. With experience at Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, Mutual Funds, Private Equity Firms tasked with objectives ranging from quantitative risk assessments to algorithmic trading strategies.

Ben was also an early engineer at Betterment, the largest "robo" advisor with ~$10Bln of assets under management. There he helped scale the platform to 300k users. A University of Connecticut graduate and member of the 2011 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship team.

Ben is currently focused on the intersection of AI and blockchain technologies. He has taken a hands on approach to engineering, advising, and contributing for projects looking to change the world.

A Colorado native who enjoys building prototypes, writing white papers, and poking holes in the newest protocols, Ben is a futurist who takes great value in advancing the current state and making these groundbreaking technologies accessible to all.

Daisy ​​Ozim is the ​founder​ of​ Resilient​ ​Wellness,​ a​ ​ ​health​ ​system​ ​designed​ ​to reestablish​ cultural​​ ​medicine​ access​ ​ for​​ ​marginalized​ ​communities.

As a board member for the Bay Area Entrepeneurship Alliance, she works to ensure access to resources and support for emerging entrepreneurs. She​ is a Commissioner for the Alameda Public Health Commission ​ ​and​ ​her​ ​work​ ​is​ centered​​ ​around​ ​decolonizing philanthropy,​ ​technology and​ ​public policy.

Daisy also runs the Blockchain for Social Justice collective. A platform designed to promote education and access of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency for marginalized communities.

Karthik Iyer is a polymath, entrepreneur, inventor and scientist. He is among the leading minds in the planet today in fields such as Blockchain, Crypto and AI. He was recently featured among the Top Influencers of the crypto industry in Asia.

He is the ambassadors of the world’s largest think tank on decentralized technologies such as the Blockchain, the P2P Foundation (One of the few places where Satoshi Nakamoto has his webpage).

Due to his P2P-F link Karthik has been researching Blockchain and crypto currencies as early as 2008. He is the Founder of Asias first end-to-end Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Research firm BlockchainMonk. He spent over a decade in Scandinavia and has mentored dozens of startups.

Talk Abstract: Congressman Polis will provide an update from Washington on the work of the bipartisan blockchain caucus to educate Congress that is apprehensive toward disruptive technologies, Create Awareness of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies and how they can enhance freedom and economic opportunity for undeveloped world (unbanked) and redefine how we view identity and ownership, and to convey the need for light touch regulation to ensure disruptive technologies can flourish, companies can innovate, while ensuring consumer protection and preventing fraud.

Bio: Jared Polis is an independent leader who uses his private and public sector experience to find pragmatic solutions to the challenges facing Colorado and the nation. First elected to represent Colorado’s Second Congressional District in 2008, Polis serves on the powerful Committee on Rules, the Committee on Education and the Workforce, the Committee on Ethics, and the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee.

Polis believes that education is the single most meaningful investment America can make in its economic future and in its people. His efforts in this area focus on making accountability work at all levels, expanding educational models, and improving persistently failing schools with data-driven changes to successful achievement gaps.

Polis also works with Democrats and Republicans to reform our nation’s broken immigration policies, to advance the cause of civil rights and equality for all, and to protect Colorado and the world’s natural beauty and environment.

While still attending Princeton University, Polis co-founded his first company, American Information Systems, a success he followed with the launching of bluemountain.com and ProFlowers.com. He has been named an “Entrepreneur of the Year” by Ernst and Young.

Talk Abstract: Blockchains coordinate human behavior at unprecedented scales; commensurately, we now face a governance challenge unlike any other. This talk presents a solution to the decentralized governance of blockchain protocols inspired by futarchy. Under this paradigm, a system-wide metric is used to determine the efficacy of proposals predicted to improve the system's utility via the action of prediction markets. By choosing a metric tied to the behavior of the blockchain's validators, we find an incentive-compatible governance mechanism that avoids the failings of a variety of other solutions in the ecosystem. We conclude by surveying these alternatives and show how this system improves upon their shortcomings through the lens of cryptoeconomics.

Bio: Alex Stokes (@ralexstokes) is a cryptoeconomist who has been studying blockchains since 2011 while at Princeton University. He thinks that governance is the biggest challenge blocking the widespread adoption of these systems and spends his time leading the discourse on how we can best collectively use the "decentralized commons". Outside of his work on governance, Alex is an active open source contributor to cryptocurrency projects like Ethereum's Casper proof-of-stake protocol. He believes that token markets and AI ethics have more in common than it may at first appear ;)

Sarah is a senior brand designer at ConsenSys focused on thoughtful strategy and holistic experiences. As a recent Colorado transplant by way of New York, she brings seven years of experience working on distinguished brands utilizing the power of strategic design to transform businesses.

As a designer in the blockchain space, she is striving to bridge the gap between the technology and humanity by finding the simplicity in the complexity and a resonating brand for a decentralized world.

Workshop Abstract: Mining Bitcoin, or other POW crypto currencies seems simple. Get a machine, plug it in, and wait for the earnings to roll in, right? Well, it’s not that simple. There are a number of pitfalls that can be easily avoided. From sourcing your first miner, to safely securing your hard earned coins. Oh, and let’s not forget that first big power bill…

In 30 minutes you’ll know what it takes to mine as a hobby, or a small business. My hope is to give you the knowledge and guidance to determine, with certainty, whether or not mining is something that you’d like to try.

Bio: Mike Clear is Director of Business Development at Watchman Payment Systems. In his role, Mike helps companies secure payments between non-traditional funding sources such as financial aid, points, or other non-fiat balances utilizing software which delivers instant payment to approved vendors in the form of a one time use digital credit card. One such solution, known as Automated Bursar Billing enables college students to access their financial aid using only their student ID to purchase approved goods & services, such as educational materials, prior to the start of classes.

Prior to his current role, Mike spent the past 10 years working closely with retailers to develop retail and warehouse management software. His experience involves early stage participation in the development of an omni-channel inventory management system and POS which was adopted as the core platform for Tree of Life Bookstores, and licensed as Sidewalk Pro. Mike spent five years as the POS Sales Engineer at Sidewalk Inc. Mike has also consulted for a variety of outside industries including the Energy and Finance sectors.

He worked with NRG Energy for two years in a Growth Leadership role for the product innovations team. He has consulted on go-to-market strategies, and hardware acquisitions withUniversal Studios, Target Inc., and 24 Hour Fitness. Mike has B.S. in Political Science from The University of Colorado at Boulder.

Talk Abstract: Beginning in March of 2017, we've seen Bitcoin dominance drop from above 80% down to as low as the mid 30s. The reasons for this are hotly debated, but it's undeniable space has been made for new approaches including DPOS, Delegated Proof of Stake, which powers the most active blockchains on the planet including BitShares, STEEM, and more recently, EOS. This cooperation over competition model for securing blockchains goes beyond protocol consensus to include on-chain governance. This new environment allows not only for DACs, Distributed Autonomous Communities, but for a new token-driven economy where incentives between token holders, block producers, users, and workers are in full alignment

In this talk, we'll explore DPOS, DACs, and on-chain governance. We'll see how the promise of blockchain disruption is being realized through enterprise-ready solutions for real-world applications. Examples will include the BitShares DEX, Steemit, DTube, DLive, Utopian.io, and more.

Bio: Since the middle of 2017, Luke has been a block-producing witness on the STEEM blockchain. He bought his first bitcoin in January of 2013 and has been passionate about cryptocurrency and decentralization ever since. In 2007, he co-founded and built the ecommerce shopping cart platform FoxyCart.com which he sold to his business partner in 2018 to focus full-time on the blockchain space.