Introducing Cryptographic Franks, Euros and US dollars

The meetup will be at Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science, Bernoullistrasse 16, 2nd floor seminar room 205.
If the door to the building (mensa) is locked, call 076 449 09 82.

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Have you ever wondered

A. If it is possible to combine potential of Bitcoin with familiarity and stability of Government backed money?

B. How banks can respond competitively to monetary systems like Bitcoin?

If so, this is the meetup for you! We will introduce Ripple plus Stellar protocols, and perform demos transferring Euros in 5 seconds for less than 0.1 cent transaction cost.

Additional themes:

1. Ripple's Achilles heel: The consensus problem

2. Decentralization in Bitcoin vs. Centralization in Ripple

3. Difference between Ripple and Visa / Paypal: Notions of Programmable money and Smart contracts

4. Applications: Short term and science fiction like.