Blockstack and Beyond

The meetup start time is 7pm, however you're welcome to join us at 6:45 to grab some food and beverages.

SF Blockstack is back to begin a new 4 month series focused on supporting dAPP developers with advanced functionality for expanded front end library support and social networking functionality. Each meetup will end with an open Q&A. We'll stick around for as long as you like to answer questions, help, or just geek out to blockchain protocols over a beer.

The first of this series will be mainly focused on overviewing Blockstack for our new community members in SF, and to catch up the existing community with new technical updates, our app Mining Program and other efforts we have going on.

The following meetups will go more in depth for dAPP developers and seek their feedback on issues, or just geek out and work on dAPPs together, as well as continually update on our product roadmaps, as well as our higher level progress and upcoming milestones.

All are welcome.

Agenda:
Quick overview on Blockstack

• whitepaper: https://blockstack.org/whitepaper.pdf
• https://blockstack.org/what-is-blockstack/

Summary of Blockstack architecture:

• https://docs.blockstack.org/core/naming/architecture.html

A technical deep dive into scalability concerns for dAPPs and where Blockstack offers advantages for dAPPs looking to scale exponentially:

• https://blog.blockstack.org/blockchains-and-consensus-protocols-liveness-and-correctness-are-inseparable/
• https://medium.com/@muneeb/peer-review-cbc-casper-30840a98c89a

A technical walkthrough of the Blockstack authentication flow with Gaia hubs:

• https://docs.blockstack.org/storage/overview.html

Evolution of Radiks platform for social networking functionality in apps:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3681ZYbDSSk
• https://github.com/blockstack-radiks/banter/blob/feature/tutorial-start/TUTORIAL.md
• https://github.com/blockstack-radiks/radiks

Live demo of a social networking dApp using Radiks: Come to the meetup to see it ;)

• Our App mining program: https://app.co/
• Our new documentation and tutorials for beginner developers: https://docs.blockstack.org/develop/zero_to_dapp_1.html

Resources for getting more involved:

• http://chat.blockstack.org
• commnity.blockstack.org
• forum.blockstack.org

Education Resources:

• Docs: https://docs.blockstack.org/
• whitepaper: https://blockstack.org/whitepaper.pdf
• Blog: blog.blockstack.org

Those who complete our zero to dapp tutorial, or something more in-depth on the radiks platform:

• https://github.com/blockstack-radiks/radiks
• https://github.com/blockstack-radiks/banter/blob/feature/tutorial-start/TUTORIAL.md

You'll receive:

• Free t-shirt for completing the tutorial
• We’ll directly email you radiks workshop hosted last week with an in-depth tutorial on next steps.

Speaker details:

Patrick Stanley is Head of Growth at Blockstack, a new internet for decentralized apps where users own their data. He studied economics and psychology at Johns Hopkins and was the first employee at data-driven lending startup Earnest. In a growth role there, he helped it scale from 1 to 200 employees and go from $0 to $2B in loan originations within 3 years