I will be moderating a panel on 8/23 with team members of SALT and ShapeShift; two innovators in the Denver Blockchain Scene. I’d love to see you there! Details below. The value of Bitcoin, aka “digital gold” today exceeds $10 billion, and the blockchain technology underlying digital currencies stands as an undeniably ingenious invention. Join us for this Innovation Spotlight Read the article >>
I’ll be presenting on behalf of Occipital at hackAR meetup on August 30th. From the meetup page: Come learn how to build a hello world on the Structure Sensor from Occipital, the spatial computing company. Their very own Kevin Owocki will walk us through this! He is a bit of a legend who spins bits for fun & profit but watch out for his megabyte! More seriously, Kevin Read the article >>
Like so many others, I’ve found that writing that could be categorized as self-help, spiritual, or new-age can make one numb with it’s blandness. While this type of writing can be powerful for people who are down in the dumps or otherwise looking for motivation, 90% of the the category strikes an inarticulate chord with me. As an engineer, words like “energy flow” and “cosmic” become a turn-off Read the article >>
One of my favorite projects of the last several months was a Raspberry Pi cluster: I’ve since set it up to run a local geth cluster, which makes running Mist or doing solidity development a little bit easier. Here’s a build list: 4 x SanDisk Ultra 32GB microSDHC UHS-I Card with Adapter, Grey/Red, Standard Packaging (SDSQUNC-032G-GN6MA) 4 x Raspberry PI 3 Model B A1.2GHz 64-bit Read the article >>
If you are based in Boulder and want to learn more about blockchain technology, check out the Boulder Blockchain Meetup + Slack Team. We are 130 members strong and 4 meetups deep. Here are some videos of past meetups (especially the video of Congressman Jared Polis speaking about Blockchain at the end): Meetup Videos Click the logo to learn more Read the article >>
To install geth on a raspberry pi, run these commands: wget https://gethstore.blob.core.windows.net/builds/geth-linux-arm7-1.6.6-10a45cb5.tar.gz tar -xvf geth-linux-arm7-1.6.6-10a45cb5.tar.gz cd geth-linux-arm7-1.6.6-10a45cb5 sudo mv geth /usr/local/bin/ Note: the geth binary I’ve chosen might be out of sync by the time you read this. Look for arm7 linux builds on https://geth.ethereum.org/downloads/ if Read the article >>
Those who know me through work in the Boulder Community know that I run the Boulder Startup Week Future of Tech Track — which consists of events on Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality, Machine Learning, Security, and Blockchain. It’s become a running joke amongst friends in the tech community that the theme of the track is really “Things Kevin likes”. While I don’t dispute that the subthemes of the Read the article >>
Here are two talks from my Boulder Startup Week events that I recommend if you’re interested in the evolving cryptography-powered currency and cryptography-powered security landscape: Blockchains and why they’re important Crypto and the Law Read the article >>
One of my favorite events during Boulder Startup Week was “Cryptocurrencies: the Race to the Next Major Protocols (FTP->HTTP->HTTPS->????)”. A few attendees emailed me afterwards and asked if there was a decent Blockchain meetup in Boulder. There isn’t, so I put one together. Want to join? Details are below. https://www.meetup.com/Boulder-Blockchain/events/240060646/ Read the article >>
I’ve always loved this quote from Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road”: The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight Read the article >>