Startup CTO : The primacy of the network & Web 3.0

Categories future_of_tech
Theres a new episode of Startup CTO out today. It is a cross post from Vincent Horn's new podcast, Crypto-Mind.  With permission, I've reposted it from  Crypto-Mind podcast.  This podcast is about contemplating deeply the societal, spiritual, network implications of the networked Web 3.0 world. This episode is all about networks.  Specifically, What's it mean to be a part of the network? Read the article >>

Blockchain StartupCTO.io podcast episodes

Categories Uncategorized
StartupCTO.io is a podcast that Miles Matthias and I started a couple years ago as a means of capturing some of the great engineering + community conversations we're able to have as community organizers in Boulder, and share them with the world. I'm happy to say that we've been able to start a series on Emerging Technology on the podcast, starting today with Raine Revere, Lead Architect at Prism. Read the article >>

YouveGotETH.github.io wins the Dappathon!

Categories sideprojects
You've Got ETH won the community prize at the Dappathon.  Here's an article from Forbes magazine talking a little bit about it. You've Got ETH  is a tool that allows you to send ethereum to any email address.  The idea is that it's more powerful to evangelize the ecosystem by sending Ethereum such that the end user has an incentive to figure out wallets, private keys, and smart contracts. Here's Read the article >>

Send Ethereum to any Email Address w. YouveGotETH.github.io

Categories sideprojects, Uncategorized
I built a tool called You've Got ETH this weekend at the Dappathon.  It's a tool that allows you to send ethereum to any email address.  The idea is that it's more powerful to evangelize the ecosystem by sending Ethereum such that the end user has an incentive to figure out wallets, private keys, and smart contracts. Here's a demo video. Code is available via MIT Liscense at https://github.com/youvegoteth/youvegoteth.github.io/ Mainnet Read the article >>

Blockchain & Digital Currency Innovators Panel on August 23rd

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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 >>

Augmented Reality Crash Course Meetup

Categories colorado, community, public-speaking, virtual reality
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 >>

Deep Okayness

Categories life, mental health, suicide survivors
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 >>

Make a raspberry pi cluster to run the Ethereum blockchain.

Categories tools
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 >>

Boulder Blockchain Meetup + Slack Team

Categories community
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 >>

Install Ethereum / geth on a raspberry pi B

Categories ethereum, tools
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 >>