Blockchain Beach is attending the Ethereal Summit at the Knockdown Center in Brooklyn, New York. You can follow our live tweets for Day 2 by following us on Twitter. Here are the Day 1 highlights:
The opening Keynote was from Aya Miyaguchi, the Executive of the Ethereum Foundation:
https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/994948158915563520
She announced that the 2018 Ethereum Developer's Conference will be held October 30th to November 2nd in Prague:
https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/994951253913493504
Later, we were joined by Eva Kaili from the EU Parliament. She made sure to dispel the myth that Bitcoin is good for crime and fraud:
https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/994963641618362368
She also found it very interesting that some recent disruptors, like Uber, have the potential of being disrupted soon:
https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/994964831924117504
The next panel focused on the Middle East, including Rahilla Zafar, Managing Director of Consensys. She had a very interesting statistic about the population of Saudi Arabia:
https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/994975058690002944
Next, Wall Street Journal writer Paul Vigna gave the audience a bit of a history lesson:
https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/994989457433559043
He also took his shots at tech companies, like Google:
https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/994990809534648320
Sandra Ro previously lead the CME Group to adding Bitcoin Futures. Since then, she has left to found the Global Blockchain Business Council, which is working to create Blockchain solutions worldwide:
https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/995025816923901955
Later, Bermuda Premier David Burt made a number of interesting announcements, including one about Overstock and tZERO:
https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/995044203330711552
We closed Day 1 with a keynote from for JPMorgan Blockchain Lead, Amber Baldet. Her latest venture is still in stealth mode, so she discussed some common misconceptions in Blockchain (a topic Blockchain Beach is passionate about as well!).
The beginning of her presentation focused on her thoughts that there will be many Blockchains with their own strengths and weaknesses:
https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/995055526449905665
If you want to build on Blockchain, you need to understand which one aligns with your goals:
https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/995056123219709952
She moved on to a point that privacy is not binary, there can be selected privacy. She even used an example that made ZK-SNARK make sense:
https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/995058858547666944
It was an exciting day and we're looking forward to another great Day 2. We'll also bring you coverage from some of their other stages and offerings, other than the main panel sessions!
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