Custom Digital Assets - Create Your Very Own Digital Asset Via Stellar

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Blockchain & Brews (B&B) goal is to grow the blockchain ecosystem organically through workshops, discussions, hackathons, mini-projects, and of course, great people. Whether you are brand new to blockchain and crypto or a decade long veteran, you are welcome here!

We have a heavy emphasis on participation! Please bring your laptop!

Agenda:

6PM: We'll gather for drinks, food, and discussion.

6:30PM: We will dive into a walkthrough of how to create your very own digital asset! We'll be utilizing the Stellar network to do this. From creating our account to defining all the parameters (supply limit, asset distribution, etc.) of our newly minted asset, we'll guide you through the process step-by-step and engage in discussions throughout. All this and more! Don't forget to bring your laptop so you can follow along and complete this workshop!

8PM: Closing remarks and general discussion. Feel free to leave at your discretion.

Workshop Materials: https://www.stellar.org/developers/guides/walkthroughs/custom-assets.html

Info about the Stellar Network: Fundamentally, Stellar is a system for tracking ownership. It uses an accounting ledger, shared across a network of independent computers, to store two important things for every account holder: what they own (their account balances) and what they want to do with what they own (operations on those balances, like buy or sell offers.

The Stellar ledger is more robust than other blockchains'. Bitcoin, for example, stores only balances. Adding operations to the ledger means that when users' offers overlap (say, a buy and a sell) the trade can execute automatically.

The computers that run Stellar and publish the ledger are called nodes. They systematically validate the ledger’s contents so it’s always consistent across the network. For example, when you send someone a dollar on a Stellar-built app, the nodes check that the correct balances were debited and credited, and each node makes sure every other node sees and agrees to the transaction.

Stellar has been running for four years and has handled over 450 million operations by over 3 million individual accounts.

Transactions cost roughly 1/millionth of a dollar.