Growing Internet Ownership

Join Blockstack's Co-founder & CEO, Muneeb Ali, and Engineering Partner, Jude Nelson as they discuss exciting Blockstack developments for the first half of 2020.

In this meetup, the conversation will focus on the following topics:

•Recent Stacking Consensus SIP proposal with breakthrough consensus algorithm (https://forum.blockstack.org/t/stacking-a-new-consensus-algorithm-for-blockchains/10162 and https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack-core/blob/develop/sip/sip-007-stacking-consensus.md)
•Stacks 2.0 Blockchain updates
•Clarity Smart Contract Language

We invite you to join us in enabling an open, decentralized internet that grows user ownership online.

Schedule:
6:00 pm: Socializing
6:30 pm: Muneeb Ali, CEO and Co-founder of Blockstack PBC
6:50 pm: Jude Nelson, Engineering Partner of Blockstack PBC
7:15 pm: Q&A
8:00 pm: Event Over

Food and beverages will be served.

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Speaker Profiles:
Muneeb Ali
Dr. Muneeb Ali is the co-founder of Blockstack, a decentralized computing network with 375+ apps/startups built on top. He serves as the CEO of Blockstack PBC, a Public Benefit Corp that is developing the core Blockstack technology. He has raised $50 million USD in funding from investors like Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator, Lux Capital, Winklevoss Capital, and others. Muneeb was featured as one of ten profiles in Coindesk’s Most Influential 2019. Muneeb received his Ph.D. and Masters in Computer Science from Princeton University. His Ph.D. thesis was nominated for the ACM SIGCOMM dissertation award by Princeton University. Muneeb gives guest lectures on cloud computing at Princeton and his research publications have over 1,300 citations. He is one of the main profiles in George Gilder's book Life After Google and was a technical advisor to the HBO show Silicon Valley. You can follow him on Twitter @muneeb.

Jude Nelson
Jude received his Masters in Computer Science from Princeton University and did PhD-level research in distributed systems at Princeton with Larry Peterson. For over five years, Jude worked as a core member of PlanetLab, which received the ACM Test of Time Award for enabling planetary scale experimentation and deployment. He has received nearly $4 million in research grants, and his systems have been deployed across dozens of universities. You can follow him on Twitter @JudeCNelson

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