Blockchain Ask Me Anything Session 3 with Jae Yang, Blockchain Engineer #blockchainama

The third session in this series is focused on Cryptocurrency Practicals and Future of Cryptocurrencies. Operationally, cryptocurrencies include many stakeholders. In this session we will talk about problems, debates, and rewards of mining, and how code forks are handled. The session will cover the scalability debates and recent developments in Bitcoin, because Bitcoin is a great bellweather for rest of the cryptocurrencies. Moving forward, cryptocurrencies will do much more than transact, and the session will briefly introduce you to Bitcoin Script and Ethereum Smart Contracts. Finally we will cover the issue of privacy and how it is being handled in different cryptocurrencies.

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Walter De Brouwer CEO CoFounder doc.ai #ICOvVC

Walter De Brouwer CEO CoFounder doc.ai a platform designed to let people train their own medical AI so that they can organize their own data trial to accelerate research and convert the millions of biomarkers in their body into a financial asset. He is a polymath, serial entrepreneur and investor in tech and science since he left academia in the 90’s.

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Itai Damti Entrepreneur in Residence 500 Startups Fintech (SF) #ICOvVC

Itai Damti Entrepreneur in Residence 500 Startups Fintech (SF) He is also CEO Antifragile which is a fintech consulting firm in Hong Kong. Previously, he co-founded Leverate (160 employees, 6 offices)- an industry leader in tech for online brokers, with over 100b USD in monthly trading volume. In his ten years at Leverate, Itai served as CEO Asia Pacific (3 years), VP Products (3 years, 9 PM’s, 13 products) and engineering lead (4 years). Itai is a long time crypto enthusiast and an advisor to several companies in the space including Gatecoin, Hong Kong’s largest exchange.

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ICO versus VC Funding

DISCUSSION: Walter DeBrower, CEO of doc.ai; Jay Eum, formerly with Samsung Ventures and now Managing Director and Co-Founder of Translink Capital; Itai Damti, Resident Entrepreneur at 500 Startups; William Quigley, Managing Director Cashel Enterprises; Michael Sidgmore, Broadhaven Capital Partners; Duncan Davidson, Managing Director of BullPen Capital MODERATOR: Robin Raskin, Journalist

This is a guest post by Robin Raskin, Living in Digital Times

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