Freecoin - Building digital currency with clojure

Bitcoin and Blockchain are quite popular topics nowadays.

There is a lot of hype and investment around these technologies.
There are not a lot of libraries and frameworks that could be used in Clojure for experiments and projects related to a Blockchain.

But due to a nature of a Blockchain, as a sort of immutable database of transactions, - Clojure could be a perfect match for it.

Plan for the talk:

1. I'll give short introduction to a blockchain and bitcoin.
2. I'll tell about my experiments with Freecoin - Complementary currency toolkit in clojure https://github.com/d-cent/freecoin
3. Demo

About the speaker:

Igor Ruzanov holds a Master’s degree in applied mathematics. Software developer with more than 10 years of experience working in projects for such customers as Deutsche Bank, Umicore and Canon-Europe. Four and half years of experience working at D square / Trendminer - spin-off company from KU Leuven.

Many thanks to Kunstmaan (https://kunstmaan.be/) for hosting this event!