How To Pretend You Attended Boston Blockchain Week
Reading lists for the events you secretly missed
This is a judgement-free zone. I get it; we’re all busy. The Red Line was a disaster, and your alarm clock was totally acting weird.
So you missed a few Boston Blockchain events — no big deal! That shouldn’t stop you from attaining the same knowledge as those who did actually go.
You can thank me later, but for now, here’s where & how you can learn what was discussed at the events of the past several days in Cambridge and Boston:
If you didn’t go to Decentralized Newsrooms, Music Ecosystems and Cyberpunk Storytelling: How Blockchain is Disrupting Media Models, you should read:
- This Blockchain-Powered News Network Could Solve Journalism’s Billionaire Problem — Observer
- Civil Seeks to Civilize Journalism with Blockchain Tech — Media File DC
- “Track Changes by Postlight” podcast episode about decentralized journalism*
- “The Leadership in Tech” podcast episode with the founder and CEO of Civil*
- This blog post arguing why decentralization might not be the answer to Facebook’s data scandal, including a visualization of decentralized alternatives to major social media networks.*
If you missed Women in Blockchain — Fireside chat with Sandra Ro, here’s some related content:
- “Unchained” podcast episode with Sandra Ro on her work at CME Group and Bitcoin (where she was head of digitization)*
- Reuters piece on land rights/registry in Africa + blockchain*
- Profile of Julius Akinyemi, entrepreneur-in-residence at MIT Media Lab and founer of UWIN Corp., where Sandra Ro now works as COO to register rural farmers’ assets on the blockchain in developing nations*
If tickets sold out too fast for MIT Technology Review’s Business of Blockchain, no worries; each talk is available to watch for free on TechnologyReview.com, including:
- Opening Remarks by Gideon Lichfield
- Roundtable: Cryptocurrencies and Global Monetary Policy with Rod Garratt and Robleh Ali
- How The SEC Will Affect ICOs with Kathleen Breitman of Tezos
Tech Review also published stories from the Blockchain issue of their magazine(May/June 2018), including:
- A glossary of blockchain jargon
- Let’s destroy Bitcoin (which has already received rebuttals)
- Inside the Jordan refugee camp that runs on blockchain
If you had to take a call with a prospective hire and missed “Overcoming the Blockchain Developer Staffing Crisis” with BlockchainXperts, here is some insights you missed into the crypto hiring market:
If the Red Line was delayed, so you missed The Importance of a Transparent Blockchain, you should check out:
- Lighting Up the Blockchain with Real Time Data — Aleth.io Blog
- Governance, transparency and accountability in ICOs — thoughts for the present and future — Ashurst
- Why Transparency Matters — Aragon Project
If you were too busy eating vaguely sourced food to join “IBM Food Trust: Blockchain for Food,” you should burn off those calories by reading:
If you are trying to get caught up on any of the other events from Boston Blockchain Week, I recommend finding the Twitter profiles of the panelists or companies involved, to see what content they shared during and after the event.
Or, you can always hop into any public crypto education-focused Telegram / Discord / Slack channel and ask users what they recommend you read to learn about [an esoteric crypto topic]. Here is a list of such forums, one of them being the Token Report Telegram forum, of which I am an admin.
To the Boston blockchainers out there who really did go to these events,
see you next year!
*h/t Seline Jung
