{"id":334,"date":"2016-11-10T07:53:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T07:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/?p=334"},"modified":"2017-04-21T02:48:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T02:48:04","slug":"wellington-blockchain-meet-up-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/10\/wellington-blockchain-meet-up-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington Blockchain November Meet Up Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was another good meet up in Wellington yesterday evening with a few more new faces which was great to see. The evening started with a presentation from myself on &#8220;Blockchain Consensus with Proof of Stake&#8221; and then with Brett Holland from <a href=\"http:\/\/creativehq.co.nz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Creative HQ<\/a>\u00a0talking about the <a href=\"https:\/\/nzfintech.kiwi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KiwiBank Fintech Accelerator<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The most interesting part was perhaps the questions at the end of each presentation where the audience members could get involved and share their experiences and insight.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_338\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-338\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-338 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-10-at-9.30.59-AM-1024x733.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-11-10-at-9-30-59-am\" width=\"700\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-10-at-9.30.59-AM-1024x733.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-10-at-9.30.59-AM-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-10-at-9.30.59-AM-768x550.png 768w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-10-at-9.30.59-AM-700x501.png 700w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-10-at-9.30.59-AM.png 1239w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean talking about Proof of Stake Consensus Mechanism<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I talked about what proof of stake is, how it works and it&#8217;s relation to Ethereum.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a link to the slide deck\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Blockchain-Consensus-with-Proof-of-Stake.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Checkout the video below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Blockchain Consensus with Proof of Stake\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D8lSuRlRAwg?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<figure id=\"attachment_335\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-335 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-09-18.38.05-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"2016-11-09-18-38-05\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-09-18.38.05-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-09-18.38.05-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-09-18.38.05-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-09-18.38.05-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-09-18.38.05.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brett Holland from Creative HQ<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Brett gave an insight into the KiwiBank Fintech programme and how it works. Mark posed an interesting question on the oxymoron of blockchain technology disrupting the financial industry but then having KiwiBank as one of the main sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>We are looking for speakers for a 5-10 minute slot so if you have something you want to share,\u00a0please contact the organisers of the meet up.<\/p>\n<p>The next meet up will be in December with dates published soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was another good meet up in Wellington yesterday evening<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","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\/11\/2016-11-09-17.39.15-copy.jpg",3965,1886,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-09-17.39.15-copy-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-09-17.39.15-copy-300x143.jpg",300,143,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-09-17.39.15-copy-768x365.jpg",640,304,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-09-17.39.15-copy-1024x487.jpg",640,304,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-09-17.39.15-copy.jpg",1536,731,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-09-17.39.15-copy.jpg",2048,974,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-09-17.39.15-copy.jpg",1024,487,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-09-17.39.15-copy.jpg",825,392,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-09-17.39.15-copy.jpg",590,281,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\/334","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=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}