Blockstack X Nakamoto

Join us for a fireside chat with Balaji Srinivasan about his newly launched journal for the crypto community, Nakamoto. Nakamoto is a new website that seeks to feature quality technical, philosophical, and cultural writing that is of general interest to the crypto community as a whole, for beginner and expert alike.

As Blockstackers our mission to grow internet ownership squares well with Nakamoto’s goals of surfacing important developments for a technically literate audience. They’re trying to create a civil place for the crypto community to discuss Bitcoin and everything else.

Balaji’s first article in Nakamoto is a prediction that Bitcoin will become the flag of technology by the end of the 2020's, because it’s a community symbol and an aligning point.

We at Blockstack agree with this prediction, as reflected in our recent SIP-007. Our stacking proposal leverages Bitcoin because it is the most secure Proof-of-Work blockchain in use. That is, it allows anyone to use a secure PoW cryptocurrency like Bitcoin to participate in consensus algorithms for new blockchains without ever repeating the need to go from electricity to PoW.

Join us for a discussion on Nakamoto, Blockstack, Stacking, and much more!

Agenda:
6:00 pm: Socializing
6:30 pm: Muneeb presentation on Stacking, a new breakthrough consensus algorithm powered by BTC
7:00 pm: Fireside chat with Balaji Srinivasan and Patrick Stanley on Nakamato
7:30 pm: Q&A
8:00 pm: Event end
Food and beverages will be served.

Speaker Profiles:

Muneeb Ali
Dr. Muneeb Ali is the co-founder of Blockstack, a decentralized computing network with 375+ apps/startups built on top. He serves as the CEO of Blockstack PBC, a Public Benefit Corp that is developing the core Blockstack technology. He has raised $50 million USD in funding from investors like Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator, Lux Capital, Winklevoss Capital, and others. Muneeb was featured as one of ten profiles in Coindesk’s Most Influential 2019. Muneeb received his Ph.D. and Masters in Computer Science from Princeton University. His Ph.D. thesis was nominated for the ACM SIGCOMM dissertation award by Princeton University. Muneeb gives guest lectures on cloud computing at Princeton and his research publications have over 1,300 citations. He is one of the main profiles in George Gilder's book Life After Google and was a technical advisor to the HBO show Silicon Valley. You can follow him on Twitter @muneeb.

Balaji S. Srinivasan
Balaji S. Srinivasan is an angel investor and entrepreneur, and most recently the creator of Nakamoto, which today serves as a journal for quality technical, philosophical, and cultural writing in the crypto community. Formerly the CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, he was also the cofounder of Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase), Counsyl (acquired by Myriad), Teleport (acquired by Topia), and Coin Center.

He was named to the MIT TR35, won a Wall Street Journal Innovation Award and holds a BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering, all from Stanford University. Dr. Srinivasan also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.You can follow him on Twitter @balajis.

Patrick Stanley
Patrick Stanley is Head of Growth at Blockstack. He studied economics and psychology at Johns Hopkins and was the first employee at data-driven lending startup Earnest. In a growth role there, he helped it scale from 1 to 200 employees and go from $0 to $2B in loan originations within 3 years. You can follow him on Twitter @PatrickWStanley.

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