{"id":828,"date":"2017-03-06T22:09:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T22:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/?post_type=port&#038;p=828"},"modified":"2017-07-12T07:51:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T07:51:37","slug":"wellington-blockchain-march-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/06\/wellington-blockchain-march-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington Blockchain March 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We kicked off the first Wellington Blockchain event for 2017 last night with great speakers and a great turn out. It has changed a lot from a bunch of guys around a table in\u00a0September 2016&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-187 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160907_175941-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160907_175941-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160907_175941-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160907_175941-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160907_175941-700x394.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>to this in March 2017.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-829 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2017-03-06-18.01.44-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"682\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2017-03-06-18.01.44-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2017-03-06-18.01.44-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2017-03-06-18.01.44-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2017-03-06-18.01.44.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last night we had 4 speakers. Mark gave a great update on the up and coming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblockchain.nz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blockchain NZ conference<\/a>. There are some world class speakers coming down under. Check out the website site for more details. It will be in Auckland and there is work underway to try and bring the speakers to Wellington as well.<\/p>\n<p>Sean talked about blockchain basics and how it will change the future and Felix (pictured above) talked about decentralization and smart contracts.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"The Impact of Blockchains\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-e4bOiqE4fQ?start=549&#038;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><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C6NbsxFVAAAKDwp.jpg-large-3-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C6NbsxFVAAAKDwp.jpg-large-3-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C6NbsxFVAAAKDwp.jpg-large-3-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C6NbsxFVAAAKDwp.jpg-large-3.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-834\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C6NhtUoU0AEOWgC.jpg-large-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C6NhtUoU0AEOWgC.jpg-large-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C6NhtUoU0AEOWgC.jpg-large-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C6NhtUoU0AEOWgC.jpg-large.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our final speaker was Sulu who shared his personal story about how sending money back to Samoa was still a challenge and how his Kiwi Fintech start up\u00a0Liberac is going to disrupt that.<\/p>\n<p>We had people from lots of different backgrounds. Coders and programmers, lawyers interested in smart contracts, people from Deloitte and lots of new faces wanting to understand what blockchain really is.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Bizdojo for hosting and to all that came. Look out for the next meetup in April where we&#8217;ll look to continue our momentum. As always, if you have something you&#8217;d like to share, let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We kicked off the first Wellington Blockchain event for 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/meetupmarch17.jpg",300,161,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/meetupmarch17-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/meetupmarch17-300x161.jpg",300,161,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/meetupmarch17.jpg",300,161,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/meetupmarch17.jpg",300,161,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/meetupmarch17.jpg",300,161,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/meetupmarch17.jpg",300,161,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/meetupmarch17.jpg",300,161,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/meetupmarch17.jpg",300,161,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/meetupmarch17.jpg",300,161,false]},"author_info":{"info":["seandotau"]},"category_info":"Uncategorized","tag_info":"","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","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=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/1184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}