Blockstack Austin: Growing Internet Ownership

Blockstack is a full-stack decentralized computing protocol that enables a new generation of applications where developers and users can interact fairly and securely while curing the ills of centralized Internet design. Blockstack builds protocols and developer tools designed to enable a fair and open Internet that returns digital rights to developers and consumers. Led by some of the world's foremost experts on distributed systems, Blockstack allows users to own their own data that they can take with them from app to app in the ecosystem, along with their Blockstack ID that eliminates the need for password-based logins. The end result is privacy, security, and freedom.

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Join us for a fireside chat with Balaji Srinivasan about his newly launched journal for the crypto community, <a href="https://nakamoto.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Nakamoto</a>. 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<a href="https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack-core/blob/develop/sip/sip-007-stacking-consensus.md" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> SIP-007</a>. 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: Socializing6:30 pm: Muneeb presentation on <a href="https://blog.blockstack.org/stacking-a-new-consensus-algorithm-for-blockchains/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Stacking, a new breakthrough consensus algorithm powered by BTC</a>7:00 pm: Fireside chat with Balaji Srinivasan and Patrick Stanley on Nakamato7:30 pm: Q&amp;A8:00 pm: Event endFood and beverages will be served.Speaker Profiles:Dr. Muneeb AliDr. 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. Blockstack was recently featured in the CNBC’s list of 100 promising startups to watch. 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 characters 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 <a href="https://twitter.com/muneeb?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@muneeb</a>.Balaji S. SrinivasanBalaji S. Srinivasan is an angel investor and entrepreneur, and most recently the creator of <a href="https://nakamoto.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Nakamoto</a>, 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 <a href="https://twitter.com/balajis" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@balajis</a>.Patrick StanleyPatrick 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 <a href="https://twitter.com/PatrickWStanley" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@PatrickWStanley</a>.Event Partner(s):Austin Blockchain Collective
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