About 8 months ago Joel Monegro, who is one of the analysts here at USV, wrote a great post titled “The Blockchain Application Stack.” The post lays out how the bitcoin blockchain can be combined with overlay networks and decentralized protocols to create a new application ecosystem. A lot of work has been accomplished since then by a great many individuals and organizations to bring this stack into sharper focus.

If you want to learn more about the progress, I highly recommend that you head over to Blockstack.org and check out the forums there. A lot of current discussion takes place in the Blockstack Slack.

Most excitingly there will be a Blockstack Summit here in New York City on September 12. If you are interested in topics such as the following you should definitely attend: Distributed hash tables, blockchain scalability, decentralized identity, secure messaging, smart contracts, decentralized storage, peer-to-peer reputation, electronic voting, blockstack governance, peer-to-peer markets, etc.

The format will be a set of 5 minute lightning talks followed by working sessions. If your favorite topic isn’t on the list above you can easily start your own breakout group.

What’s exciting about the summit is that it will bring together people working on actually implementing various parts of the Blockstack with academics studying distributed systems as well as businesses looking to build and use Blockstack based applications.

I am looking forward to attending and participating in a Q&A panel. Special shoutout to NYU Prof Lakshmi Subramanian for helping organize and secure a venue as well as to all the companies sponsoring the event: bitseed, OB1, onename, Chord and Tierion.

So head on over to Blockstack Summit and register now!

About 8 months ago Joel Monegro, who is one of the analysts here at USV, wrote a great post titled “The Blockchain Application Stack.” The post lays out how the bitcoin blockchain can be combined with overlay networks and decentralized protocols to create a new application ecosystem. A lot of work has been accomplished since then by a great many individuals and organizations to bring this stack into sharper focus.

If you want to learn more about the progress, I highly recommend that you head over to Blockstack.org and check out the forums there. A lot of current discussion takes place in the Blockstack Slack.

Most excitingly there will be a Blockstack Summit here in New York City on September 12. If you are interested in topics such as the following you should definitely attend: Distributed hash tables, blockchain scalability, decentralized identity, secure messaging, smart contracts, decentralized storage, peer-to-peer reputation, electronic voting, blockstack governance, peer-to-peer markets, etc.

The format will be a set of 5 minute lightning talks followed by working sessions. If your favorite topic isn’t on the list above you can easily start your own breakout group.

What’s exciting about the summit is that it will bring together people working on actually implementing various parts of the Blockstack with academics studying distributed systems as well as businesses looking to build and use Blockstack based applications.

I am looking forward to attending and participating in a Q&A panel. Special shoutout to NYU Prof Lakshmi Subramanian for helping organize and secure a venue as well as to all the companies sponsoring the event: bitseed, OB1, onename, Chord and Tierion.

So head on over to Blockstack Summit and register now!