• April Event at In The Pocket

    PAKT

    Dear members,

    For our April event we'll be visiting the new offices of In The Pocket in Antwerp. In The Pocket is so kind to provide food and drinks for the evening.

    Kwinten will talk about Nostr. We're still confirming a second speaker.

    We hope to see you soon,

    Dries, Rias & Freek

    PS: Please remember to change your RSVP if you cannot attend.

    SCHEDULE

    19:00 Doors Open
    20:00 Start Talks

    TALKS

    An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It by Kwinten

    Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) is the simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global "social" network once and for all.
    It doesn't rely on any trusted central server, hence it is resilient; it is based on cryptographic keys and signatures, so it is tamperproof; it does not rely on P2P techniques, and therefore it works. Oh and obviously it does not use a blockchain at all.
    This talk will give an overview of the features, the philosophy, the history of the protocol, and a live coding session to demonstrate how it works.

    Speaker: I’m Kwinten, born in 1994, physicist-turned-software-engineer from Ghent, Belgium. I develop backend software and infrastructure. I quite like writing things in Go and YAML, although I have worked with many languages, frameworks and technologies. I enjoy working with managed Kubernetes, Lightning Network nodes, and automating cloud infrastructure integration and deployment.

    I am a founding engineer of Alby, a wallet and platform for Bitcoin Lightning Payments on the web. My main area of expertise is the Bitcoin Lightning Network.
    In my free time I enjoy reading, participating in quizzes and bouldering.

    Length: 30min

  • June Event at Spilberg

    Needs a location

    Dear members,

    For our last meetup before the summer break we'll be visiting the new offices of Spilberg. They're so kind to provide us with drinks and some fingerfood.

    More info about speakers soon.

    We hope to see you soon,

    Dries, Rias & Freek

    PS: Please remember to change your RSVP if you cannot attend.

    SCHEDULE

    19:00 Doors Open
    20:00 Start Talks

    TALKS

    Want to speak at this event? Contact Dries V. through a Meetup.com message.

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