{"id":1433,"date":"2017-10-05T21:48:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T21:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2017-12-07T23:44:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T23:44:24","slug":"wellington-blockchain-meetup-oct-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/05\/wellington-blockchain-meetup-oct-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington Blockchain Meetup Oct 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Christmas draws near, the Wellington community came out in force for another blockchain meetup. This month we had a number of speakers from the community sharing their experiences in the blockchain world.<\/p>\n<p>I kicked things off with a talk on how I put my land title on the blockchain.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Land Titles On The Blockchain\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kAvKPEYMepU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jose Higino shared his experience with Steemit, the blockchain platform where content creators can paid and the content is locked on the chain. Find Jose&#8217;s presentation notes, on Steemit of course, <a href=\"https:\/\/steemit.com\/meetup\/@forykw\/introduction-into-steemit-wellignton-blockchain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-10-05-17.51.31-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-10-05-17.51.31-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-10-05-17.51.31-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-10-05-17.51.31-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tim Goggin talked about his experience of seeing how the state of Illinois are promoting grassroots communities and collaboration in the blockchain space with the launch of the <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagoblockchain.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago Blockchain Center<\/a>. See:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/government-supports-the-launch-of-new-chicago-blockchain-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Government Supports Launch of New Chicago Blockchain Center<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1436\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-10-05-18.10.52-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-10-05-18.10.52-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-10-05-18.10.52-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-10-05-18.10.52-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image-1-1-300x227.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"644\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image-1-1-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image-1-1.png 635w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our final speaker Hamish MacEwan gave a hands on demonstration on an array of hardware wallets. In particular, Hamish show how paper wallets and the ledger nano works.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1437\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-10-05-18.24.59-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"765\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-10-05-18.24.59-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-10-05-18.24.59-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-10-05-18.24.59-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, we had the usual networking session also. Thanks to Jose, Tim and Hamish for contributing. I&#8217;m sure everyone managed to find something to suit their taste and walked away learning something new. Thanks again to BizDojo for hosting and see everyone next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Christmas draws near, the Wellington community came out in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blockchain","category-meetups"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/OctMeetup300.jpg",300,169,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/OctMeetup300-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/OctMeetup300-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/OctMeetup300.jpg",300,169,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/OctMeetup300.jpg",300,169,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/OctMeetup300.jpg",300,169,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/OctMeetup300.jpg",300,169,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/OctMeetup300.jpg",300,169,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/OctMeetup300.jpg",300,169,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/OctMeetup300.jpg",300,169,false]},"author_info":{"info":["seandotau"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/category\/blockchain\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Blockchain<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/category\/meetups\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Meetups<\/a>","tag_info":"Meetups","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}