October 30, 2018 | Prague Blockchain Week/Devcon4

A wave of new groups have taken to market to build mining companies and network-facing services that tend to provision staking and validator nodes. Today, they are focused on defensibility strategies having to do with specialized hardware, operational security, and. But as decentralized networks become ubiquitous as large-scale coordination mechanisms and, ultimately, publicly-owned institutions, it will become apparent that the role of technological actors in these networks goes far beyond PoS-style block validation. The set of domain-specific problems that can be solved by global networks, from to to, is bewilderingly large. We have termed the activity of engaging the set of techno-financial opportunities in decentralized networks generalized mining, a nod to the roots of third-party cryptoeconomics in systems such as bitcoin and Ethereum. We have termed the general marketplace of networks, service providers, and cryptoeconomic business opportunities as the third-party economy. Investors, companies, and projects play an important role in these upcoming networks. This meetup is intended to bring together the foremost participants in the generalized mining space to explore this set of exciting opportunities. Beer, wine and snacks will be provided.
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Rabbithole Talks is a monthly meetup, focused on doing deep dives into innovative token economics and technical design decisions for interesting blockchain-based projects. Join us for our with Doug Petkanics (Livepeer)!
is Founder and CEO at , where he focuses on protocol research and software development. Livepeer is building an open source video infrastructure platform, which leverages decentralization to drive down costs and meet the needs of developers building video applications at scale. Prior to Livepeer, Doug was founder and VP Engineering at Hyperpublic (acquired by Groupon) and Wildcard.
It is recommended that attendees read the Livepeer whitepaper beforehand —

Crypto Talks is an interactive, livestreamed Q&A, hosted by (Co-Founder, Managing Director, & CEO of ), engaging founders of blockchain technology projects. The goal of Crypto Talks is to dive deeper into proposed projects and allow founders to present their visions and plans to a fairly sophisticated audience of experienced cryptoinvestors, and beyond. Past guests include: (Co- author of “”, Partner at ), (Co-Founder of ), (CIO, Co-Founder of BlockTower Capital).
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The CoinFund team is looking forward to attending the Devcon4 Conference in Prague, October 30-November 2, 2018.
October 29, 2018 | () will be speaking on “Generalized Mining and the Third-Party Economy” and the interplay of decentralized insurance marketplaces.
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