Name: Libby Kent on Ethereum: The World Computer (2013)
Start: 2018-04-19T18:45:00-04:00
End: 2018-04-19T20:45:00-04:00
Location: Two Sigma

We're super excited to host Libby Kent, software engineer, distributed ledger programmer, and demonstrator of Monads Made Semi-Understandable (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Djb1VyzkM)! She'll be presenting on the Ethereum White Paper (http://blockchainlab.com/pdf/Ethereum_white_paper-a_next_generation_smart_contract_and_decentralized_application_platform-vitalik-buterin.pdf): A Next-Generation Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform (also available here (https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper) with additional details), authored by Vitalik Buterin.

Talk

In 2009 bitcoin emerged as a peer-to-peer value transfer system, and was successfully deployed throughout the world. Four years later (2013), the Ethereum white paper was published by an 18 year old Vitalik Buterin which builds on top of the Bitcoin consensus model to allow for distributed computation and applications to be deployed on a decentralized peer-to-peer network.

This paper discusses introducing a turing complete language that can be run on top of the network, utilizing a modified consensus algorithm (GHOST), strategies for defending against mining centralization, further application of such a system beyond just finance, the introduction of state, as well as a history of bitcoin and and the fundamental concepts of the underlying blockchain.

Bio

Libby (http://blog.libbykent.com/) (@viskobatz (https://twitter.com/viskobatz)) is a software engineer, former Hacker Schooler (now Recurse Center (https://www.recurse.com/)) and Papers We Love groupie who leans towards functional programming, and really wants to understand category theory some day. She has worked in an array of industries from game startups to digital publishing and advertising and is currently in financial services, working on distributed systems - distributed ledger technology, blockchain - and cloud technologies. When not coding she enjoys snowboarding, tennis, traveling, friends, good conversations, beer, coffee, dark chocolate and cheese.

Details

Doors open at 6:45 pm; the presentations will begin right around 7:15 pm; and, yes, there will be refreshments of all kinds and pizza.

You'll have to check-in with security with your Name/ID. Definitely sign-up if you’re going to attend–unfortunately people whose names aren’t entered into the security system in advance won’t be allowed in.

After Libby's presentation, we will open up the floor to discussion and questions.

We hope that you'll read some of the papers and references before the meetup, but don't stress if you can't. If you have any questions, thoughts, or related information, please visit #pwlnyc (https://paperswelove.slack.com/messages/pwlnyc/) on slack (http://papersweloveslack.herokuapp.com/), our GitHub repository (https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love), or add to the discussion on this event's thread.

Additionally, if you have any papers you want to add to the repository above (papers that you love!), please send us a pull request (https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/pulls). Also, if you have any ideas/questions about this meetup or the Papers-We-Love org, just open up an issue.

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