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Upcoming Events: This Week in Crypto NYC

We're here to cut through the noise and keep you in the loop about upcoming events that you shouldn't miss.

Thursday: Crypto NYC Hacker Thursday/Open House
Thursday, August 23rd, 11:00 am - 4:00 pm (Free)


Is there a blockchain app that you've been thinking of building? Need a hand getting started with blockchain development? Come hack on your favorite blockchain or crypto project with us every Thursday! Experts are on hand to help out and we keep each other accountable on each others' week to week progress. Feel free to work on whatever platform or project you'd like. At 1pm, we'll go around the room and all give a quick synopsis of what we're working on/excited about. Hacker Thursdays also double as an open house: if you'd like to check out our office and hear more about our community, sign up and stop by! Bring your laptop!

Location: Crypto NYC HQ, 205 Hudson Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY, 10013

Thursday: Rise Refresh: Seven Legal Tips for FinTech Startups
Thursday, August 23rd, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm (Free)

"You've formed a company and have set off to execute your business plan, but have you done everything legally necessary and advisable to put your business on the path to success? Come hear experienced business attorney Damien G. Scott provide you with the seven essential legal tips to make sure that you are protecting yourself and your company from unforeseen liabilities. He will discuss various matters from selecting the right entity and jurisdiction to protecting your IP and making sure that you're paying all of your taxes."

Location: Rise New York, 43rd West 23rd Street, New York, NY

Thursday: Programming Ethereum
Thursday, August 23rd, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm ($50)


By Chainhaus: "We'll spend 2 hours digging into Solidity and building some dapps. Developers will walk away with a strong grasp of Solidity and some of the development frameworks associated with it. This is perfect for beginners. You will learn TONS. Given the HUGE demand for this class, we ask that you only attend if you are ok with working on your laptop from your...errr...lap (no desks). An email will be sent prior to course date on how to prepare your laptop for the prerequisite binaries."

Location: MIT National One Penn Plaza, 34th floor, New York, NY 10019

Next Week: Crypto NYC: Whitepaper Wednesday [Truebit]
Wednesday, August 29th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (Free, limited room, sign up now!)


Next week, we're reading about Truebit, a project to support off-chain computation in Ethereum contracts. Read the paper beforehand. Bring your lunch, questions and comments to Crypto NYC in Tribeca, where we'll talk through it together. All levels of experience are welcome. No coding required. We're here to learn from each other!

Location: Crypto NYC HQ, 205 Hudson Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY, 10013

Upcoming: Crossing the Crypto Chasm
Thursday, September 6th, 6:00 pm (Free)

"There is a growing gap between those who can participate in crypto and blockchain opportunities and those who cannot with the vast majority of crypto and blockchain projects involving the technical, financial savvy, speculators, or the wealthy. On Thursday, September 6th, Helium is hosting a meetup and panel discussion at FirstMark Capital called Crossing the Crypto Chasm to explore the barriers that prevent everyone from participating in the new decentralized economy and look at companies solving real-world issues by bringing their projects to the masses."

Location: Firstmark Capital, 100 5th Avenue, New York, NY

In the Future: Blockchains School for Mentors
September 2018 - May 2019

Blockchains for Schools is city-wide mentorship program that's organizing a once-a-month event in Manhattan for NYC high schoolers to learn about blockchain. They're looking for crypto and blockchain mentors and speakers who work in the industry. Sessions are 11am-12:30pm from September through May. If you're interested in volunteering, sign up using the link above.

Location: TBD

Upcoming conferences and summits we're attending (let us know if you are too!):

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Meet the Man with a Radical Plan for Blockchain Voting (wired.com)

An exciting profile from Wired on our friend and neighbor Santiago Siri and the Democracy Earth project: "THE CONVERSATION HAS already covered a dizzying amount of ground. We’ve discussed the emergence of the Westphalian order of nation-states in the 17th century, Russia’s interference in the 2016 US election, the total collapse of Venezuelan society, and Siri’s own experience of political corruption in his native Argentina. But he finally boils it all down to one short sentence. 'We want to tokenize the like,' Siri says. At the center of the project is the creation of what he calls 'political cryptocurrency—blockchain-generated tokens that users of Democracy.Earth’s software can spend as votes.'"

Crypto NYC Hosts SingularDTV (medium.com)

Read Erich's take on last week's Crypto NYC roundtable lunch presentation by SingularDTV, a project which is hard at work building a new, decentralized entertainment industry.

Artists Ai Weiwei and Kevin Abosch Are Using the Blockchain to Make Us Question What’s ‘PRICELESS’ (motherboard.vice.com)

"A new work by Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei (currently based in Berlin) and New York-based Irish artist Kevin Abosch called PRICELESS seeks to spark a mentality-changing conversation around the value of human life, and specifically the treatment of refugees by nations, using the Ethereum blockchain. 'For me, [blockchain] is not about the technology, but an opportunity to set up a new system that could dismantle the old system, or at least offer a new possibility for communication,' Weiwei told me in an interview conducted over email. 'It’s not about a potential for creating art, but, rather, to question the existing system and the potential to create a new system outside of the established one.'"

“Post-Venture” Capital and the Crypto Nobel Prize (medium.com)

"Innovation is new wealth. As a result, any project working on incentives for innovation itself has this trillion dollar monstrosity as its market. And yet when I say that Planck is trying to help scale scientific innovation, you probably don’t think about a trillion dollar market. But science is just a decentralized protocol for innovation — it structures and rewards shared knowledge. And so if blockchain is going to transform innovation, massively scaled open science is probably what it will look like. This has already been unbelievably valuable — imagine if you had to pay a physics tax, or if you had to sum up the wealth that Alan Turing created in the world.”

The Riemann Hypothesis, explained (medium.com)

Not strictly blockchain or cryptography related but a great read nonetheless! We like to mix it up from time to time, and we're big fans of math: “You remember prime numbers, right? Those numbers you can’t divide into other numbers, except when you divide them by themselves or 1? Right. Here is a 3000 year old question: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, p. What is p? 31. What is the next p? It’s 37. The p after that? 41. And then? 43. How, but… how do you know what comes next?”

Harberger Taxation and Open Source (medium.com)

“This is a refinement of my proposal for a new open source license intended to provide a practical alternative to strict copyleft or permissive style open source licensing. This post discusses how such a license could use a self-assessed tax as a means to self-regulate and grow a digital commons. This idea was inspired by Posner and Weyl’s excellent book Radical Markets, and helps to simplify how the license would work and resolve some legitimate concerns about uncertainty risks in the initial proposal.”

Weekly Tuesday Lunches

Our core mission at Crypto NYC is to connect amazing people such as yourself working on blockchain technology. Join us every Tuesday at 1PM to hear industry experts and community members present their findings and latest blockchain projects, and to discuss current events. (Due to space constraints, please sign up for lunches beforehand on our Meetup page.)

New! Our friends at Livepeer are helping livestream our lunch talks. Tune in live at http://crypto.livepeer.tv/.


Join us at this Tuesday's lunch to hear Albert Gozzi speak about Zeppelin, which builds key infrastructure to develop and operate smart contract systems. 

Join us next week to hear from Matthew Laffer speak about Nod, an exciting new platform focused on workplace recognition.


To get involved, come visit the Crypto NYC space in Tribeca, join our Telegram group, and send us suggested events and articles for the next newsletter.

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That's all for this week, folks. See you back here next week, same block channel, same block time (slightly higher block number). Go forth and decentralize, New Yorkers.
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