Dug Campbell - Blockchain Review of 2017 + Daniel Masters + Blockchain Pub Quiz!

December Blockchain Meetup in Edinburgh:

Dug Campbell - 2017: The Year that Was Too Big For A 'Summary of the Year' Talk

Dug is a writer, consultant, organiser and decentralisation advocate. He founded the Scottish Bitcoin Meetup, ran the first Ethereum meetups in Scotland and established the Scottish Bitcoin Conference in 2014.

He's followed the cryptocurrency and blockchain scene for a number of years, blogging regularly (www.dugcampbell.com (http://www.dugcampbell.com/)) and providing press commentary to the BBC, STV, CNN and The Herald amongst others. Back in February 2014, Dug gave a well-received early TEDx talk on Bitcoin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CypPMzZinys) entitled 'Bitcoin - More Than Just Money'. (though he says the only reason he'll ever watch it again is if he wants to remember what he looked like with more hair...)

In previous lives, he spent a decade as a lawyer helping VC's and startups secure investment before striking out on his own as a digital strategy consultant for tech businesses. This led to a 3-year stint as Product Manager of a local FinTech startup (The IDCo). These days, Dug now spends a lot of time with a sore head, thinking how to help blockchain businesses around the globe explain exactly why their technology is quite so important.

He still maintains that he's still learned more from r/Bitcoin/ over the years than either his law degree or MBA. You can contact him on Twitter (@dugcampbell) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dugcampbell/)

Daniel Masters - Cryptocurrencies May Be Approaching 'Escape Velocity’

Daniel Masters is currently Chairman at XBT Provider, issuer of Europe’s only exchange traded bitcoin and ether notes. He is also Co-Principle and Chief Investment Officer at Global Advisors, the team responsible for GABI (a Jersey based, actively managed, bitcoin investment strategy); and previously responsible for the Global Advisors Commodity Investment Fund and the Global Advisors Commodity Systematic Fund.

Before Global Advisors, Mr. Masters began his career in Oil and Energy trading for the likes of Shell, Solomon, and prior to co-founding Global Advisors in 1999, served as Global Head of Energy and Trading Business at Morgan Guaranty Trust Company (“MGT”) in New York (Now JPMorgan). Mr Masters has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Physics from Exeter University, UK, and a Masters in Management Science and Operational Research from Imperial College, London, UK.

Blockbusters - Blockchain Pub Quiz!

Event schedule:

5:30pm : Arrive, Networking, Beer & Pizza

6.00pm: Presentations / Q&A

7.00pm: Off to the Pub - The Three Sisters, Cowgate for a Blockchain Pub Quiz