Speaker: Nash Foster
Description: Over the last two years, Nash has led a small team of software engineers in the implementation of a high-performance blockchain intended to compete against global-scale payment systems. His project (see: https://silvermint.net) is completely implemented in go, from the eventually-consistent algorithm for transaction consistency to transaction conflict detection to high-performance data storage solutions for blocks. Nash will speak on some of their experience squeezing the last ounce of performance from pure go in comparison to algorithms written in C++ and CUDA. And, will wrap-up on some thoughts about go in an entrepreneurial/startup environment.
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/dkn-ekxb-qrj
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Schedule:
6:30 - Introduction and announcements
6:35 - Main Presentation
7:15 ish - Stick around and talk about tech/architecture/ops/whatever