Stanford Bitcoin Meetup

Please note that this event is limited to 65 people, so RSVP if you are coming (and don't RSVP if you are not coming). We have a great lineup of speakers. Thanks!

Speakers: Charlie Lee and Josh Seims

Josh Seims, founder of TrustedCoin

Joshua Seims is the founder of TrustedCoin, a transaction cosigning service that makes it easy to build secure Bitcoin applications. Prior to starting TrustedCoin, Joshua founded HitPlay, a platform for large-scale video distribution. He has a Bachelors in Computer Science from Harvard.

Talk Title: "How should governments react to the growth of Bitcoin?"

How to integrate cryptocurrencies into the global economy while minimizing disruption to existing institutions.

Charlie Lee, creator of litecoin

Charlie Lee is the creator of Litecoin, the most popular alternative currency to Bitcoin. He is a software engineer at Coinbase. Prior to joining Coinbase, he spent 6 years at Google working on YouTube Mobile, Chrome OS, and the Google Play Games platform. Charlie earned a Bachelors and Masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science from M.I.T.

Talk Title: "History of Litecoin"

Glyde, a bitcoin enabled company, Drew Lieberman, Dave Shuffelton, Joe Senn

Glyde is a peer-to-peer eCommerce marketplace that makes buying and selling consumer electronics and video games easy and safe. Glyde's marketplace efficiency allows sellers to get more value than from trade-in, and it gives buyers a curated buying experience featuring attractively priced high quality products. The exchange has been scaling to volume over the past 18 months and starting this week, will enable customers to receive BitCoin for items sold on the site.