{"id":2663,"date":"2018-01-19T11:12:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T17:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=2663"},"modified":"2018-01-19T11:12:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T17:12:26","slug":"boulder-blockchain-meetup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2663","title":{"rendered":"Boulder Blockchain Meetup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/Boulder-Blockchain\/\">Boulder Blockchain Meetup<\/a> a few days ago. It was fascinating. The entire room was full to standing, and they went around and asked everyone to do a quick intro. Then we separated into three grouos:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>beginners<\/li>\n<li>developers<\/li>\n<li>everyone else<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The beginners group, where I went, was about 10ish folks in a room discussing all different aspects of the blockchain, from who might be interested in using it to what a particular coin might be used for to &#8216;buying the dip&#8217;. I was surprised at how many non developers were there (40-60%). There was a lot of talk about &#8216;trading&#8217; crypto currencies. To be honest, it felt a bit like the wild west, with plenty of interesting work and some scams all mixed together.<\/p>\n<p>However it was interesting enough to me to take a deeper look into Ethereum (there are so many crypto currencies, but this seems like a good one to investigate, if you are a developer). This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ethereum.org\/greeter\">looked useful<\/a>, as did <a href=\"https:\/\/ethereum.org\/cli\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, if you&#8217;d like a two minute intro into why this is worth investigating, here&#8217;s a video from the Meetup website (otherwise, you should totally check out the next meetup):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6WG7D47tGb0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the Boulder Blockchain Meetup a few days ago. It was fascinating. The entire room was full to standing, and they went around and asked everyone to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology-and-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2663"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2666,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions\/2666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}