Blockchain Innovation + Ethereum = Awesome

The pace of development picked up substantially after the crowd sale! Our next meetup will be about latest innovations and what they mean for industry, developers and blockchain technology. This week, IBM proclaimed to fork the Ethereum software stack for their IoT ecosystem (https://twitter.com/pbrody/status/510311550734073856). Time to get on the bandwagon and have a thorough look on the new opportunities.

With the help of mastermind Ralph, we will talk about what to learn from the crowdsale and then dissect each protocol in detail.

1. Ethersale post mortem - consequences and economic insights.

2. Blockchain - lets tackle some scalability and sustainability issues.
   6/12 sec block time: uncles at help
   micro chains
   hybrid of PoW and PoS

3. libp2p - a unifying library for p2p networks. Whisper, Swarm and the Ethereum blockchain itself will use it. But it doesn’t end here: discover clients for a distributed network only once and and then piggy back your own protocols on top!

4. Whisper - p2p secure messaging, and what about bitmessage and telehash?

5. Contract ABI - the standard interface for crypto law: contracts as objects.

6. IBM, Samsung and Adept - IoT paradigm change with the right software stack.