Blockchain for Beginners: Bitcoin Traveler, The Machine Economy

• Bitcoin traveler: 18 months later (Felix Weis)

Is it possible to travel around the World only using Bitcoin? In January 2015 Felix Weis, a freelance programmer from Luxembourg starts an experiment: He converts all his savings to bitcoin, cut his credit card and packs his backpack. He just came back to Berlin last week and will share some stories about his journey, the ups and downs, visiting 26 countries using the world's most popular crypto-currency.

• Dumb to Smart: The Machine Economy (Dominic Schiener)

IoT and Blockchain are reshaping our industries by enabling entirely new processes. Combining both of these tools will enable the emergence of the Machine Economy, which will change just about everything. This talk will go into deeper details about how we will see this transition from dumb to smart decentralization, powered by Blockchain and IoT.