As a consequence of the urbanization process, cities have become more dominant, both economically and politically, what has brought great opportunities to them. However, many cities also face huge challenges in managing their complex operations. Sustainability, congestion, unequal opportunities, data management, and privacy are among these challenges while the mobility economy is in the epicenter of these developments.

Blockchain Zoo is hosting an event with Jochem Verheul, the Founder of Itsavirus and the Open Mobility Network who is going to take a deep dive into how blockchain technology can be used as a tool to solve some of these challenges of smart cities.

Come and join us for the event at our Blockchain Zoo office in Ubud, or watch the event live and join the live chat discussion.

ABOUT SPEAKER:
Jochem Verheul is the Founder of Itsavirus and the Open Mobility Network. As a tech entrepreneur with +10 years of experience, he has been involved in numerous large, often complex and innovative projects and ventures. He was also responsible for the first implementation of blockchain technology in public transport.

How can blockchain change poverty? The lack of trust and thereby of trade financing in developing economies leads to extreme resource scarcity & inability for economic growth. Vally Azar, VP of Growth at Kommerce, shares his insights on this matter and outlines how blockchain bridges the gap and allows money to flow in and kickstart healthy capitalism. He also introduces his Kommerce project and how their live pilot on the Ethereum testnet is already reducing poverty and hunger in Africa through blockchain technology.

ABOUT VALLY AZAR:
Vally is a full-stack growth engineer, blockchain geek and nomad with a decade of experience in growing startups (6 of which were in blockchain). He worked on two world-record-breaking ICOs (Golem & Bancor), presented hour-long talks to audiences of hundreds and co-founded active blockchain meetup groups in Bali and Singapore. He has contributed writing to leading publications including Forbes, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Men's Fitness Magazine and Yahoo News. Vally is skilled at user-funnel data analysis, copywriting and guerilla marketing, publicity stunts, process automation, and living out of a carry-on backpack.

More info: http://www.eddyazar.com

ABOUT KOMMERCE:
Kommerce deploys blockchain and data analysis to empower African businesses to access capital markets - and for capital markets to safely and efficiently finance African businesses.

More info: https://kommerce.com/en

Is the crypto you're currently HODLing based on Proof Of Work? If yes, you might want to know some potential attack vectors (based on true stories!) and the reason why PoW, after all these years, might not be the solution after all.

PoW is the Steam Engine of decentralization, and it's about time to look forward and see what alternatives are there - efficient and rewarding ones.

More resources:

Relax, your bitcoin are safe. Or are they?
https://medium.com/@capodieci/advancing-in-blockchain-technology-26881e8e6e71

Proof of Work is dead
https://medium.com/@capodieci/advancing-in-blockchain-technology-part-2-of-4-d5396e46be3

Why Proof of Work Is a Wrong Method to Secure Blockchain
https://youtu.be/0sDtorfzG7w

In the new episode of BlockTalks, we're bringing a discussion between the #Blockchain experts about the technology behind Facebook's #Libra cryptocurrency.

Roberto Capodieci is founder and CEO of the Blockchain Zoo Association, and a renowned expert on Blockchain technology. He started programming when he was just 6 years old, sold his first video game when he was 10, and opened his first IT company when was 14. He is a first-mover in the Blockchain sector, a prodigious speaker, and was the first to apply the tech to supply chain management and trade finance.

Barton Johnston, co-founder and CTO of Blockchain Zoo, has extensive programming and engineering experience in several languages and across a range of industries. Now, his focus on Blockchain technology - specifically the underlying infrastructure. Barton works on the structures of various types of decentralized consensus protocols, hashing and asymmetric encryption algorithms, and analysis and applications of new blockchain and crypto technologies such as Maid Safe, IOTA, and NXT.

Jean-Daniel Gauthier, co-founder of Blockchain Zoo, has been working in IT since the age of 15, with experience as a business analyst, solutions engineer, and in R&D, in a range of sectors. He co-founded two award-winning Blockchain-based startups that developed successful proofs-of-concept for major international trade finance and banking stakeholders. As a trainer, his aim is to transform raw ideas into applicable concepts, and empower individuals and companies to stay up-to-date, future proof, and sustainable.

Willy Woo is an analyst and partner at Adaptive Capital. He pioneered the field of on-chain analysis. In this talk, Woo will present engaging visualizations of data to give the audience, an overview of the market including the past, where we are today, and where we are heading. He will also cover a short history of some on-chain analysis techniques. This talk is best suited to existing crypto investors. The floor is open for Q&A.

About the speaker:
Willy Woo is an analyst and partner at Adaptive Capital, pioneering the field of on-chain analysis. He has written for Forbes, Coindesk, speaks regularly at conferences and is interviewed on leading webcasts. You can follow him on Twitter @woonomic, or read his blog at woobull.com.

Touted as a game changer, blockchain offers transparency, security, and immutability of transactions. So, what is the status of the blockchain right now? We talked with Melissa Loh and Stephen DeMeulenaere about the mass adoption of the blockchain technology and the decentralized applications.

Read more about the dapps and the mass adoption of blockchain here:
https://blogchainzoo.com/when-will-blockchain-achieve-mass-adoption/

BlockTalk is a meet-up series of blockchain experts, thinkers, enthusiasts, and friends invited by Blockchain Zoo from all across the globe to exchange ideas, discuss current and future technology trends and introduce projects within the blockchain ecosystem.


BLOCKTALK GUESTS

- Melissa Loh, Co-Founder at 1Unit
Melissa is an entrepreneur, business and leadership coach, consultant and project manager. She believes that business can be one of the fastest vehicles for positive change in the world, hence her interest in blockchain technology projects and the active participation in cryptocurrency and blockchain communities. She bridges ideas, cultures, and resources between Asia and the US, as she operates in Singapore, lives in Bali, and regularly visits San Fransisco and Los Angeles. She leads and supports startups and established organizations that aim for triple bottom line impact - people, planet, profits.

- Stephen DeMeulenaere, Asia Region Leader at Qoin Foundation
With over 25 years of experience with the digitalization of businesses, Stephen spent the last 8 years on designing and implementing cryptographically secured smart city currencies as Asia Region Leader at Qoin Foundation. He has been involved in a long list of blockchain-related projects. To mention some, he was an advisor to Ripple in their early beginnings, became Certified Digital Currency Professional with the Digital Currency Council, paid reviewer of "Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies" for the Princeton University Press, and organizer of the first and largest Blockchain technology event at the United Nations in Geneva.


BLOCKTALK HOSTS

- Roberto Capodieci, Founder at Blockchain Zoo
In the formative years of the Internet, Roberto expanded his business reach into the online world and quickly found his company' services in high demand. Roberto, specialized in lawful interception systems and big data analysis, is also a consultant to law enforcement agencies. He is a renowned Blockchain expert, an associate of the Nxt Foundation and the first to apply blockchain technology to supply chain and trade finance.

- Jean-Daniel Gauthier, Co-founder at Blockchain Zoo
Danny started working in IT at age 15, and since then have explored the industry from the bottom-up, gathering a comprehensive technical and business related experience. Working as a business analyst, in R&D, and in solutions engineering, Danny has been inspired to continue to research viable applications for current and nascent technologies, and translate user requirements into developer-friendly documentation.

In the first episode of our BlockTalk series, we talked with David Moskowitz from Indorse about blockchain solutions for authentication of diplomas and certifications. We also discussed the current state of the blockchain recruitment market with Raman Shalupau from Crypto Jobs List. Authentication of digital identity is just one of many blockchain use cases, we're bringing more examples of how blockchain can be used in different verticals in the next episodes.

Read more about the non-financial use cases for the blockchain technology here:
https://blogchainzoo.com/non-financial-use-cases-for-blockchain-technology/

BlockTalk is a meet-up series of blockchain experts, thinkers, enthusiasts, and friends invited by Blockchain Zoo from all across the globe to exchange ideas, discuss current and future technology trends and introduce projects within the blockchain ecosystem.


BLOCKTALK GUEST

- David Moskowitz, Co-Founder at Indorse
David co-founded multiple blockchain-based companies such as Indorse and Attores. Before focusing on the blockchain, he was a systems integrator, helping SME's set up subscription systems online (SaaS). He has 20 years of experience in product development, marketing, and sales.

- Raman Shalupau, Founder at Crypto Jobs List
Raman fell in love with computers and technology at the age of 14. He founded Crypto Jobs List, the #1 site to find and post blockchain jobs and became the CTO. Before Crypto Jobs List, he co-founded RSVPD.co, a platform to create, discover and RSVP to top events around you.


BLOCKTALK HOSTS

- Roberto Capodieci, Founder at Blockchain Zoo
In the formative years of the Internet, Roberto expanded his business reach into the online world and quickly found his company' services in high demand. Roberto, specialized in lawful interception systems and big data analysis, is also a consultant to law enforcement agencies. He is a renowned Blockchain expert, an associate of the Nxt Foundation and the first to apply blockchain technology to supply chain and trade finance.

- Barton Johnston, Co-founder at Blockchain Zoo
Barton has maintained applications in ActionScript (Flash), Java, JavaScript, Python, C# and C++, from homemade mobile games to custom eyegaze-tracking software. In 2017 he began to focus his considerable programming and software engineering knowledge onto Blockchain technology and co-founded Blockchain Zoo.

Let us know what language you and your friends are good at, and why you believe is a good idea to port ZooBC to it!

The Hashman!

Quote from: Christine on October 10, 2019, 03:08:15 PM
For me, the interest in technology was already as it's what I do for a living. Blockchain and altcoin has certainly lead me to learn more about economics and convinced me to try my hand at investing beyond standard retirement contributions.

How about you?

Hi Christine! That is good, to learn more and try new things : ) I think we all do connected in and by technology. Blockchain indeed is a breakthrough so yes, i think we all here have spurred our interest in it.

Quote from: Xander on October 10, 2019, 03:22:08 PM
I have recently heard a story that a farmer children (ages 19-27) made a barn under some high power lines on their own property and they were able to steal electricity by having an induction coil under the roof and also rumors of copper rods within the ground linked to batteries which fueled a cryptocurrency mining farm project, they were caught when the electric company noticed the drain in power. I have also seen pictures of fluorescent bulbs placed under the a high voltage power line with one end in the ground and are lit up by the induced energy. I think it's ridiculous that they are taxing us so much for energy, even if you have self sustained energy, you must pay a tax on the energy you produce! Reminds me of what happened in Waco Texas (If im not mistaken with the location)

It's sad that nobody cares about the amount of EMF emitted from the electronics these days! It's far to expensive to protect yourself from all of it, and the demand for energy is only getting larger and larger. What would this world be like if we used the innovations Tesla made and many other famous scientists! How could this possibly effect the cryptocurrency industry and the future of mining coins?!

Is it true that over 30% of the energy of energy companies produce is lost due to the simple laws of physics?
Where about in China has really cheap electricity fee?

Aye, I certainly know the Waco incident, as I'm from Texas myself lol.

Good question about Tesla. If I end up with more free time in my life, I'd love to follow some of his experiments and see what he was working on. I know that his Wardenclyffe project was widely misunderstood.

The aim of the project was to make free energy available to the entire world. Modern critics say that A) free energy is impossible, and B) amplitude of energy transmitted by a tower will fall off with the distance squared. But Telsa's idea was never to generate free electricity and broadcast it from the tower. He wanted to use the tower to send electromagnetic pulses at the resonant frequency of the earth's Ionosphere, which is massively electrically charged because it is constantly being bombarded by solar radiation. He thought, if an electromagnetic standing wave could be set up in the Ionosphere, then any device on earth could tune itself to the same frequency and draw power directly from the Ionosphere. Something like solar power, but extremely more energetic, because the solar power available on the ground is filtered through the entire atmosphere.

I don't know the exact numbers, but it seems very plausible to me that so much of modern energy generation is lost in waste. Everything that comes out of the generator as heat or sound is wasted energy, so when you see how hot and loud your car engine is for example, you immediately have an idea of how much of that energy is being lost. Certainly seems there is room for improvement lol.