{"id":2406,"date":"2019-04-19T14:42:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T02:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2019-04-19T15:12:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T03:12:13","slug":"sydney-edcon-2019-wrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/19\/sydney-edcon-2019-wrap\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Edcon 2019 Wrap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The week of April 8th was Blockchain week in Sydney with many blockchain events culminating in Edcon where Vitalik and his research crew shared their vision of Ethereum 2.0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hackathon<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The week started out with a hackathon at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) where there were lots of teams hacking it out for various cash prizes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Karl Floersch, an Ethereum core researcher talking about Plasma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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John Pacific from NuCypher talking about homomorphic encryption in the background. In the mid-ground are some hackers and in the foreground at the CryptoChicks<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What is funning is the story of CryptoChicks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the most inspiring team was CryptoBeast mentored by a good friend Nick Addison who entered his son and 3 of his mates. They were all 11 years old and ended up coming third!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most important question though is what do you do with a 6 ft cheque of $2000? Well, it may not provide much warmth as a blanket but it sure does look good!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Wednesday evening, ConsenSys put on an event at Tyro Fintech Hub with a number of guest speakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rosa Thompson (Venture Architect) with John Lilic (Global Technology Business Operations) in a fireside chat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Adrian Li, Senior Developer at Truffle, Natalia Ameline, Co-Founder of CryptoChicks, Chris Ward, Technical Content Lead at Kauri, Sandra Johnson, Applied Researcher at PegaSys. Moderated by John covering a number of international topics.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Edcon<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Thursday was when Edcon started and boy did it start with a bang. It actually started with a hilarious rap!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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