{"id":242,"date":"2016-09-28T23:21:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T23:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2017-04-21T01:59:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T01:59:37","slug":"wellington-ethereum-meetup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/28\/wellington-ethereum-meetup\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington Ethereum Meetup: Smart Contract Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-243 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-28-18.21.48-e1475103301782-1024x500.jpg\" alt=\"2016-09-28-18-21-48\" width=\"700\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-28-18.21.48-e1475103301782-1024x500.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-28-18.21.48-e1475103301782-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-28-18.21.48-e1475103301782-768x375.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-28-18.21.48-e1475103301782-700x342.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Great to see momentum\u00a0continuing at the Wellington Ethereum meetup yesterday. It was great to see a smart contract in action with Felix provided a short demo of a birthday contract in Ethereum. Thanks to Mark and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.3months.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">3months<\/a>\u00a0for hosting.<\/p>\n<p>Discussions included how the birthday smart contract worked, a plugin that provided Ethereum features and functions to the chrome browser called <a href=\"https:\/\/metamask.io\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Metamask<\/a>\u00a0and that the\u00a0DevCon2 videos should be coming out soon. The slides for DevCon2 day one are out and can be seen here:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PowerPoint?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PowerPoint<\/a> Slides from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ethereum?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ethereum<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DevCon2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DevCon2<\/a> by Misha Yang <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U2uXhr79Cp\">https:\/\/t.co\/U2uXhr79Cp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sean (@seandotau) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seandotau\/status\/781053072017530880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Discussions also centered around how to get hold of bitcoins\u00a0and one person talked about accepting bitcoins and saving up to 7% of transaction cost for his laser cut golden mean caliper business. (I had to google that too!)<\/p>\n<p>The next blockchain meet up is in 2 weeks time.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/Wellington-Bitcoin\/events\/234278462\/<\/p>\n<p>We are also looking at bringing the Wellington bitcoin\/blockchain and Ethereum communities together so keep an eye out for further information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great to see momentum\u00a0continuing at the Wellington Ethereum meetup yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meetups"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-28-18.21.48-e1475103301782.jpg",3954,1932,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-28-18.21.48-e1475103301782-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-28-18.21.48-e1475103301782-300x147.jpg",300,147,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-28-18.21.48-e1475103301782-768x375.jpg",640,313,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-28-18.21.48-e1475103301782-1024x500.jpg",640,313,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-28-18.21.48-e1475103301782.jpg",1536,751,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-28-18.21.48-e1475103301782.jpg",2048,1001,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-28-18.21.48-e1475103301782.jpg",1024,500,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-28-18.21.48-e1475103301782.jpg",825,403,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-28-18.21.48-e1475103301782.jpg",590,288,false]},"author_info":{"info":["seandotau"]},"category_info":"<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\/242","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=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}