Bytemaster's Lecture Today at Duke University

[Stan]

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Larimer, Stan. 2103. Bitcoin and the Three Laws of Robotics.


When 149 years old you reach
Look this good you will not!   8)

[G1ng3rBr34dM4n]

Calling all DUKE STUDENTS!!

Who's new here?! ;)

..And what'd you think of Daniel's lecture?

[G1ng3rBr34dM4n]

I like the "walk off" line. More University lectures would be extremely beneficial.

+5%

[jsidhu]

I like the "walk off" line. More University lectures would be extremely beneficial.

+1

Did you guys record the lecture?

Here's a tiny sample...

Bytemaster on How Much Decentralization is Enough

Subtle but interesting point... I always am in the frame of mind that decentralization of everything is great... one day we will see a OS running on a blockchain! However this thought may be counter productive.. we can narrow our thoughts and imagination to producing decentralized apps that would be under thread of a centralized authority or anything that would benefit from distribution of trust... dont try to fit a square peg in a round hole.

[carpet ride]

Any of the blogs want to make this a post? This has great subtlety  for  marketing


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[Stan]

I like the "walk off" line. More University lectures would be extremely beneficial.

+1

Did you guys record the lecture?

Here's a tiny sample...

Bytemaster on How Much Decentralization is Enough

[Stan]

How is the effect & feedback?

The class was very attentive.  No one seemed to be unconscious and they asked a lot of good questions.
We got all questions on tape so hopefully you'll soon be able to see for yourself.
We spent another hour with some of them after class.

[CLains]

I like the "walk off" line. More University lectures would be extremely beneficial.

+1

Did you guys record the lecture?

we did record it and hope to publish some or all of his best riffs before long.

:D

[fuzzy]

I like the "walk off" line. More University lectures would be extremely beneficial.

+1

Did you guys record the lecture?

[xeroc]

Great  +5%
Maybe create a welcome thread to students from Duke University.

yes good one and maybe why not creating a own board for universities and educational purposes?
Also i would love create a page for this on .org!

Go for it! .. Both of it :)

[Harvey]

That is so cool~
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[cass]

Great  +5%
Maybe create a welcome thread to students from Duke University.

yes good one and maybe why not creating a own board for universities and educational purposes?
Also i would love create a page for this on .org!

[matt608]

Great  +5%
Maybe create a welcome thread to students from Duke University.

[Empirical1.2]

 +5%  :) A great audience for BitShares.

[santaclause102]

Can we have the presentation slides, too?

there were non, see OP

[cass]

wow really great!


hehe Stan

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Larimer, Stan. 2103. Bitcoin and the Three Laws of Robotics.

[xeroc]

Can we have the presentation slides, too?

[santaclause102]

I'm impressed!

I like the "walk off" line. More University lectures would be extremely beneficial.

+5%  :D

[ebit]

 +5%

[sudo]

How is the effect & feedback?

[cusknee]

I like the "walk off" line. More University lectures would be extremely beneficial.

[onceuponatime]

I'm impressed!

[donkeypong]

That class sounds incredible!

I wonder if we will get some more bitshares delegates from this. ;)

That was Dan's walk-off line:  "Come join our forum, make yourself useful, and try to get hired!"

You should have seen the grins and murmurs from the students on that one!

That's good stuff! How many people can you tweet up for some votes, kids? By the way, if any of you are reading who were in the Duke class, then feel free to post here and we'll make sure you get some tips to start off your BitShares accounts.

[Stan]

That class sounds incredible!

I wonder if we will get some more bitshares delegates from this. ;)

That was Dan's walk-off line:  "Come join our forum, make yourself useful, and try to get hired!"

You should have seen the grins and murmurs from the students on that one!

[Ander]

That class sounds incredible!

I wonder if we will get some more bitshares delegates from this. ;)

[donkeypong]

Great! The academic links are invaluable.

[Stan]

New law of robotics applied to bitshares blockchain that let you travel to the future stan?

Professor Harvey obviously knows something I don't know...  :)

[jsidhu]

New law of robotics applied to bitshares blockchain that let you travel to the future stan?

[roadscape]

That's incredibly awesome.

[Stan]

   


I&E 550: Innovation and Cryptoventures

Today Bytemaster had the opportunity to present a two-hour lecture at the Duke University School of Business in Durham, North Carolina under invitation from Professor Campbell R. Harvey (the guy with the necktie).  The forty students taking this course are a mixture of computer science, business, and law majors who are interested in learning about starting entrepreneurial businesses in the crypto industry. The class is divided into eleven teams, each of which is required to develop a crypto business as part of their course objectives.

As you can probably imagine, Dan talked about Decentralized Autonomous Companies (DACs) and how to make them profitable.  Among the opportunities he discussed were:

1.  Cloning the BitShares block chain using the BitShares Toolkit to produce independent businesses like MUSIC and PLAY.
2.  Adding your own business logic like VOTE and DNS to BitShares itself to leverage it's delegates, community, currencies and network effect.
3.  Using BitShares User Issued Assets (UIA) to issue regulation compliant shares in a brick and mortar and flesh and blood company.
4.  What it takes to add your own Market Pegged Asset (MPA) to BitShares.
5.  The opportunity to create a business based on issuing one or more Prediction Market Assets (PMA).
6.  Becoming a BitShares Delegate and using that to bootstrap a startup business.
7.  Creating supporting business for third party add-ons, services, and products inside the emerging ecosystem.
8.  Crowd Funding vs. Crowd Hiring to bootstrap and sustain block chain based businesses.

Unfortunately there are no notes or slides to give you since Dan's lecture was given "off the cuff," but we did record it and hope to publish some or all of his best riffs before long.

For some reason I found Professor Harvey's course reading list particularly interesting, but you should check out all the other resource links on the course web site as well.

Readings

Andrychowicz, Marcin, Stefan Dziembowski, Daniel Malinowski, Łukasz Mazurek, 2013, Secure Multiparty Computations on Bitcoin.
Antonopoulos, Andreas, 2014. Mastering Bitcoin. [advanced]
Back, Adam, Matt Corallo, Luke Dashjr, Mark Friedenbach, Gregory Maxwell, Andrew Miller, Andrew Poelstra, Jorge Timón, and Pieter Wuille, 2014, Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains
Fortnow, Lance. 2013. The Golden Ticket. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Goldwasser, Shaffi and Mihir Bellare, 2008, Lecture Notes on Cryptography. [Advanced]
Grinberg, Reuben. 2011, Bitcoin: An Innovative Alternative Digital Currency.
Harvey, Campbell R., 2014a, Cryptofinance.
Harvey, Campbell R., 2014b, Bitcoin Myths and Facts.
Hearn, Mike, 2014. The future of money.
Isaacson, Walter, 2014. The innovators: How a group of hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution. [Amazon link]
King, Ritchie S., Sam Williams, David Yanofsky, 2013, By reading this article, you're mining bitcoins. Quartz. [Explains mining process and network architecture]
Larimer, Stan. 2103. Bitcoin and the Three Laws of Robotics.
Nakamoto, Satoshi, 2009. Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.
Selgin, George. Synthetic Commodity Money.
Szabo, Nick. The idea of smart contracts
Szabo, Nick. Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks.