Our mission at Atlanta Blockchain Center is to be the catalyst for Atlanta’s emergence  as the premier blockchain innovation hub globally through cultivating entrepreneurship, inclusivity and education. ABC is a place to build community and learn, each and every Thursday at our co-working space in Buckhead - Atlanta's first co-working DAO and incubator - featuring leading experts on various blockchain content themes.

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This week's theme is:

Web 3.0: Building Solutions on the Blockchain

How can you unlock the promise of Web 3.0? We'll roll up our sleeves to help you build solutions for a new decentralized internet that is powered by blockchains and tokens, forces interoperability and gives builders and users property rights.

This week's topic is:

Garzik on Working With the Creator of Bitcoin and Web3's Role in Sci Fi

What was it like collaborating with Satoshi Nakamoto? This week we get to find out based on the experiences of Jeff Garzik, an early internet pioneer, self-proclaimed science fiction nerd and understudy to some extraordinary inventors. After helping to create CNN.com, Garzik went on to become a "Linux lieutenant" under Linus Torvalds, inventor of Linux, and then worked on the Bitcoin Core project - the first blockchain node - as well as bitcoin mining projects. His code is still in use today.

This fireside chat will be moderated by Starter Labs founder, Marlon Williams, where we'll get to those burning questions as well as Garzik's contributions to the 1980s pre-Web era, his days at Georgia Tech and how he put the GT newspaper on the Web.

About the Speakers:

Jeff Garzik, CEO/CTO of Bloq, early internet pioneer, worked at CNN during their transition to having a website CNN.com, understudy to the inventor of Linux, Linus Torvalds and yes self proclaimed understudy to the inventor(s) of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. Garzik went on to found multiple businesses including Crypto startup - CEO/CTO of Bloq.

Marlon Williams, Founder Starter Labs and Atlanta Blockchain Center is a business and community leader with a passion for innovation and philanthropy. Marlon has technical, business, and nonprofit leadership experience that serves his companies and their leadership teams well. He is the founder of cloud-based software service Qubicles.io, a co-founder of the Telos.net blockchain, and founder of Starter Labs, a leading launchpad, incubator and investor network for blockchain-based projects. Marlon is also a partner at Starter Capital and founder of the Atlanta Blockchain Center, an initiative wholly funded and operated by Starter Labs.

Some of Marlon’s past experience includes director of information services at Miami-based Inktel Contact Center, chair of the inspector general office for the WAX blockchain, board member of the South Florida Digital Alliance, STEM Advisory board member for Miami-Dade County Public Schools, and President of the Society for Information Management (SIM) of South Florida.