{"id":1465,"date":"2017-10-19T12:34:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T12:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2017-11-24T12:14:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T12:14:01","slug":"sydney-around-the-blockchain-showcase-talks-and-meetup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/19\/sydney-around-the-blockchain-showcase-talks-and-meetup\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Around the Blockchain Showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the opportunity to be part of the Sydney <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparkfestival.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spark Festival <\/a> blockchain event that combined a showcase, a talk and a meetup all in 1 day from 2pm through to 8pm at a co-working space called the <a href=\"https:\/\/fishburners.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fishburners<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The showcase consisted of startups <span class=\"full\">Bitfwd, Blueshyft, Block8, Dappbase, Devery, Flux, Incent sharing what they are doing in the blockchain space.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1467\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/spark1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/spark1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/spark1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/spark1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/spark1.jpg 1328w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1468\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-10-19-15.21.50-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-10-19-15.21.50-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-10-19-15.21.50-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-10-19-15.21.50-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the same time upstairs were a range of talks on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"full\">Peerism: The Skill Token Economy for Post-capitalism &#8211; Nathan Waters <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"full\">ICOs and the Law &#8211; Hannah Glass <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"full\">Todd&#8217;s Crypto Bag of Tricks &#8211; Todd Byrne<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/spark2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"518\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/spark2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/spark2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/spark2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/spark2.jpg 1328w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pizza&#8217;s arrived at 6pm and let&#8217;s say there was enough to go around!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1471\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/spark4-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/spark4-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/spark4.jpg 459w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The evening meetup was actually an ICO announcement of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solara.io\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Solara<\/a>. A sensor that will measure the amount of electrons generated from the sun and allow the owner to monetise it in siloed communities initially. They want to raise $15M from 100M tokens initially for phase 1. The vision is huge and will take 5-10 years to come to fruition but could be a game changer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/spark3-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/spark3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/spark3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/spark3.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The community is vibrant. There&#8217;s lots of innovation happening and there are seriously talented people around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the opportunity to be part of the Sydney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-meetups"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/spark300.jpg",300,229,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/spark300-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/spark300-300x229.jpg",300,229,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/spark300.jpg",300,229,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/spark300.jpg",300,229,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/spark300.jpg",300,229,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/spark300.jpg",300,229,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/spark300.jpg",300,229,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/spark300.jpg",300,229,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/spark300.jpg",300,229,false]},"author_info":{"info":["seandotau"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/category\/community\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Community<\/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\/1465","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=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions\/1598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}