All the videos, quotes and scenes as Blockchain Week kicks off the next phase of development in spectacular fashion…
The annual in New York City not only kicks off Week — perhaps the most substantive gathering of the year in the and crypto industry — but serves as a bellwether for and the whole ecosystem.
This year’s iteration at in Brooklyn showcased an ecosystem beginning to reap the developmental benefits of an annum spent furiously , eschewing hype for the cause of establishing a robust and sustainable industry. Everywhere you looked at Ethereal Summit, it was coders engaging with designers, storytellers and entrepreneurs sharing wisdom, and actors from every far-flung corner of the ecosystem coming together to connect.
In addition to headline addresses like , Aya Miyaguchi of the announcing Osaka, as the location for , and major announcements by the likes of MolochDAO, , and , the weekend was chock full of lively debate and discussion, which all together represented a global community that’s more active, productive, and cohesive than ever while hurtling towards 2.0 and the next phase of …
QUOTES OF THE WEEKEND:
Sophia Lopez of Kaleido: “You know the tech has matured when users don’t even know that it’s powered by — and we’re already seeing this happen. People can focus on business value and not the wiring behind it.”
Paul Brody: “For most companies, by the end of this year, it will be cheaper to do business on a public than it will to do business on a private .”
of : does f***ing scale. All these other chains are doing is marketing and leaning harder. The community can help if it tweets: DOES scale!”
of Balance: “One metric I like to track is how many daily active addresses are moving DAI around, which is roughly 10,000 right now. If we want to increase that by 10x, we’ll need extremely mature crypto/fiat onramps & millions of people onboarded onto that system”
: “A lot of the problems that we see in with product fit come down to design.”
: “The herd that I’ve been talking about for so long…It’s here.”
: “The only limitation to how much students can learn is our perception of how much they can learn…”
Amber Baldet of Clovyr: “Regulators have never been strong on tech. They did a terrible job with the internet in the 90s and it’s not any better now…”
Chris Burninske: “Crypto has gone from being a myth to a strong belief. It’s next step will be going from a belief to a truth.”
: “I basically stayed in all winter. And I’ve been quietly building in winter.”
Queen Diambi Kabatusuila: “We must all be integrated into the construction of the future of humanity. No one can be left behind.”
Mike J. Walker of Microsoft: “The most common challenge i see with older companies is wanting to update a 30 yr old business process with . Don’t do it. Think about what unique aspects of apply to your business model.”
: “Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty.”
: “If you’re building on another smart contract platform, you have to rebuild all the infrastructure tools that already has. Even if another smart contract platform has better tech, the time differential is much longer than people assume today”
: “My assumption of what’s about to happen is that is going to eat everything.”
: “If layer 2 does not work, will not work. I believe that with pretty high conviction.”
Beatriz Ramos: “There’s all this fetishism about the technology but we are about the soul”
Danny Ryan: “…My wife then proceeded to run a breeding farm for the next two weeks.”
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Friday, Main Stage Morning Session
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Saturday, Main Stage Morning Session
Saturday, Main Stage Afternoon Session
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Published at Tue, 14 May 2019 14:44:26 +0000
