Miners Aren't Your Friends + In-Depth Blockchain Analytics

Agenda

6:00 Networking

6:30 Speakers
• Talk 1: Understanding The Ethereum Network – In-Depth Blockchain Metrics and Analytics (Joanes Espanol, Amberdata)
• Talk 2: Miners Aren't Your Friends – Issues at the Mining and Consensus Layer (James Prestwich, Integral)
8:00 End

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This in-depth look at data in the blockchain is being done in conjunction with our friends at SF Data Engineering meetup and DataEngConf SF (April 17-18). See below for details on the conference.

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The food for this event is sponsored by Orchid Labs. The Orchid protocol is the decentralized, open-source technology for an Internet free from surveillance and censorship. Check them out at https://orchid.com/

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Talk 1 – Understanding The Ethereum Network – In-Depth Blockchain Metrics and Analytics
Shawn Douglass from Amberdata will provide an analysis and share insights into the Ethereum Network with specific emphasis on network integrity, limitations, transaction throughput, and the most active DApps.

About the Speaker
Joanes Espanol is CTO of Amberdata, a platform for monitoring, searching, and analyzing public and private blockchain. Prior to founding Amberdata, Mr. Espanol has built several large scale ingestion pipelines and analytics platforms, with a focus on infrastructure automation and highly available systems. He is passionate about information retrieval and extracting meaning from data. (http://amberdata.io/)

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Talk 2 – Miners Aren't Your Friends – Issues at the Mining and Consensus Layer

James Prestwich from Integral will provide an in-depth look at how the consensus layer – and miners actions and motivations in particular – can adversely affect decentralized applications. Developers like to believe in a consensus layer that takes care of all the hard distributed systems problems and lets them write applications. Miners live in the consensus layer, doing whatever it is miners do. But miners aren’t your friend. James will talk about how miners can use the EVM to take money from your Dapps and from your users, why you can't stop them, and what we can do to fix it. Coding experience recommended but not required.

About the Speaker
James Prestwich is a developer, ethical software activist, and curry enthusiast. With a BA in Japanese, he works on consensus system design, smart contract security, and cross-chain contracts. James co-founded Storj and served as COO/CFO for several years. Currently, he is the founder and CEO of Integral.

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DataEngConf SF

The 3rd annual DataEngConf SF will be held on April 17-18. Join 350 other members of the Bay Area data community at a special discount rate.

This year’s DataEngConf SF will feature:
• Deeply technical talks by 50+ speakers from companies like Facebook, Instacart, Lyft and many more top Bay Area data teams
• Partners like Clover Health and Pivotal Software who will be scouting for the best data talent
• Fun networking, including everyone’s favorite data community after-party
• A dedicated track featuring data-oriented blockchain companies such as Amberdata and NuCypher
• Special Office Hours with dozens of speakers

Members of SF Ethereum Developers can get a special discount of 20% off conference tickets using code SFETH20 at http://dataengconf.com