At the Blockstack Signature Fund event held in Berlin in early March 2018, Blockstack brought together a community that included experts on data privacy, blockchain, information theory, cryptography, and the decentralized community at large to imagine, learn about, and create decentralized applications.  And, for those of you that were not able to attend the event, Blockstack has you covered.

As of this morning, Blockstack has uploaded the videos taken of all presentations and learning sessions that took place during the event.

Main Event Presentations

Event Timeline

• Morning Sessions
  • Web 3 and Decentralized Apps
  • The end of cloud computing
  • Interview with Melanie Shapiro and Ken Seiff
  • Hello Web 3! the polkadot protocol, blockchain, & the bigger picture
  • Crypto Politics: Beyond the Nation-State
  • How can decentralized technologies address centralized forms of power and control?
  • Investor Panel: Investing in a Decentralized Eco-System
  • Elizabeth Stark interview with Larry Salibra
  • Stable Coins Interview

• Early Afternoon Sessions
  • Dapp Demos
    • Intro to Blockstack Live App Demo’s
    • Misthos
    • DotPodcast
    • Symmitree
    • Health Here
    • Coins
    • Postly
    • Global Content Network
    • Graphite
    • Prism
    • Bellwethr

• Late Afternoon Sessions

Learning Sessions

• Blockstack Authentication & Identity

• Subdomains: Scalable User Registration

• Building a Blockstack App

• Gaia Storage: User Owned Data

• Managing Data in Gaia

• Approaching Infinity: Governance & The Case for Experimentation

• Resources for Building Apps on Blockstack

So without further ado, please go forth and watch, listen and learn not only about Blockstack, but how easy the Blockstack team has made it to use the Blockstack ecosystem (via the Blockstack browser) and how easy it is to build decentralized applications for use on the Blockstack internet (blockstack.js) via the Blockstack browser.

As the dApps shown above are taken from beta versions to live dApps that are available on the Blockstack ecosystem, we will try and provide a brief overview of each dApp as they inject updates, if applicable. What a great job to everyone involved in the Blockstack Berlin. Go Blockstack!

Blockstack’s Browser

Blockstack harnesses all of the power of the traditional internet and then adds the Blockstack Browser on top. The Blockstack Browser opens the window to a new internet, a decentralized internet that puts the power back in the hand of the users. To begin your journey into the new decentralized internet designed by Blockstack, you will need to install the Blockstack Browser. The Blockstack Browser is your window/portal into the new decentralized internet for decentralized applications (dApps).

Download the Blockstack Browser

For help on installing and using the Blockstack Browser, please visit this link Getting started with the Blockstack Browser.

For a more in depth look into the Blockstack Browser, please visit these links – Inside the Blockstack Browser and Blockstack Browser: It does that?

Now that you have the browser installed, visit the Blockstack Browser homepage and try out some of the active decentralized applications – e.g., investment portfolio management, messaging, word processing… More decentralized applications are being added as developed.

Resources re: Blockstack and dApps

• Blockstack
• @blockstack
  • @blockstackapps
• Developers
  • Introduction
    • Papers
    • Videos
    • Tutorials
      • (e.g., todo and multi-player storage)
    • Installation
    • Github
      • Javascript
      • Core API
• Blog
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Blockstack Meetups

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• twitter
• @blockstack
• @Blockstackapps
• Blockstack’s Forum
• Blockstack’s Slack channel
• checking with eventbrite
• try reaching out to support@blockstack.org (as a last resort)
• UPDATE from inside the community – another avenue might be craigslist:berlin.

Not sure these will help but it might be worth a quick review.  Good Luck!

Blockstack Berlin: A Signature Fund event at Axica. Blockstack Berlin is bringing together top experts on data privacy, blockchain, information theory, cryptography, and the decentralized community at large to imagine, learn about, and create decentralized applications. Some keynote speakers include Edward Snowden and Nick Szabo.  Check out the Blockstack Berlin video here as well as past Blockstack event videos here.

Learning Session: March 1, 2018

Hackathon: March 2 (evening) – March 4, 2018

Date and Time

Location

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The event is a who’s who of decentralized internet thinkers from Nick Szabo, George Gilder, Elizabeth Stark, Juan Benet, Edward Snowden… just to name a few.  The entire lineup of speakers is top notch.  Let take a quick peek of the aforementioned speakers:

Nick Szabo – is a computer scientist, lawyer and cryptographer known for his research in digital contracts and digital currency. He is credited with “bitgold”, a precursor to bitcoin and developed the concept of “smart contracts”.  Please find a blog by Mr. Szabo here – http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/

George Gilder – information theorist, investor, writer, economist, techno-utopian advocate, and co-founder of the Discovery Institute.

Juan Benet – creator of IPFS and Filecoin, founder of Protocol Labs.   He is the inventor of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a new protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open, and Filecoin, a cryptocurrency incentivized storage network.

Elizabeth Stark – Ceo and Co-founder of Lightning.  Lightning is an open protocol layer that leverages the power of blockchains and smart contracts to make cheap, fast, private transactions available to anyone around the world.  The lightning protocol dramatically improves the scalabilty of blockchain currencies like Bitcoin.

Edward Snowden – is an American computer professional, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee, and former contractor for the United States government.

And, don’t forget, the co-founders of Blockstack (Muneeb Ali and Ryan Shea) are on the line-up too.  A complete listing of all of the speakers scheduled to speak this Friday can be found at this link here.  Check out the Blockstack Berlin video here as well as past Blockstack event videos here.

These people know the decentralized internet like it was the back of their hand.  All of these people have what I call [sg_popup id=”17″ event=”hover”]The Expanding Mind^TM[/sg_popup].  If you have any interest in this stuff and want to be enlightened about decentralization of the internet, make sure you join everyone at Blockstack Berlin.

Date and Time

Location

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Next, in line in the Developers Corner series is a high level overview of a first in the decentralized dApp internet space – the ability to share data (public/private) that was stored in your preferred storage choice.  This wonderful feature is referred to as either multi-reader storage or multi-player storage.  And, up until its introduction by Blockstack, it has not been available in the decentralized application (dApp) space.  This is a first for the dApp space and for Blockstack.

The introduction was the next logical next step for the dApp space on the Blockstack ecosystem.  The first two steps being Blockstack Authentication (SSO and authentication without 3rd parties or remote servers) and Single Player Storage (ability to store all of your app data privately). 

Not to get to deep into the tech – better left to the engineers (see video below), multi-reader storage allows for the data that you write into storage while using a dApp – via the Blockstack browser & ecosystem, to be readable only by you or by others that you give access too (if you so desire).  In other words, you are now able to own and share your data (created when using a dApp) with only people of your choosing, no need for a third party to help you do that. 

A great visual resource (see video below) that provides a more detailed and technical overview of Blockstack’s multi-player reader (storage) was presented a few months back at one of the Meetups – in particular Blockstack NYC during September 2017.  The presentation – by Mr. Jude Nelson, a Blockstack Engineering Partner – provides some excellent information on multi-reader storage and how it works.

The ability of the user – no one else – to own and control access to the user’s (your) data is at the core of the Blockstack vision.  It is a fundamental shift from the internet we use today – centralized versus decentralized.  Imagine the new internet The Decentralized Way^TM in which your data (written word, spoken word, other things internet…) resides with you – only you, is controlled by you and not by anyone (or company) else.  With the introduction of multi-reader storage, it is hard not to be a developer/user/supporter of Blockstack and the Blockstack community. If you have not done so, go give the Blockstack browser a try.

Please find below, some links that might be most helpful as you learn more about Blockstack’s tools for developing a decentralized application for use on Blockstack.

Resources re: Blockstack and dApps

• Blockstack
• @blockstack
  • @blockstackapps
• Developers
  • Introduction
    • Papers
    • Videos
    • Tutorials
      • (e.g., todo and multi-player storage)
    • Installation
    • Github
      • Javascript
      • Core API
• Blog
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Blockstack Meetups
  • Blockstack NYC Meetup
• Graphite

And – calling all developers, do not forget about the dApp bounties – Blockstack: $50,000 Bounty for Messaging Applications. Bounties – One aspect of promoting the Blockstack ecosystem is to provide a platform to help support the global community of developers, designers, and others to submit their ideas and products for a chance to win a prize (e.g., decentralized application(s), dApp, dApps on the Web 3.0).  THE DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 16, 2018 – YOU STILL HAVE TIME.

Additionally, do not miss the next big event/meetup – Blockstack: Event in Berlin – March 2, 2018.

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Along with all of the scheduled speakers, Blockstack Berlin has also invited some dApp developers to debut/demonstrate their new and exciting decentralized application(s) at the Blockstack Berlin event.  The dApps to be presented at the Blockstack Berlin event have either been built or are being built for use on the Blockstack ecosystem.  We have attached – for your convenience – a list of dApp developers scheduled to present at Blockstack Berlin.

This is the beginning of our series of profiles on the dApps to be presented at Blockstack Berlin.  Our first dApp profile is on Graphite.

Graphite: Create and Write Something New Without Giving Up Your Privacy

Developer: Justin Hunter (profile picture no. 9)

Social: @jehunter5811 (https://twitter.com/jehunter5811)

Website: Graphite (http://www.graphitedocs.com/)

Social: @graphitedocs (https://twitter.com/graphitedocs)

The purpose of Graphite is to allow the user of the application on the blockstack internet architecture to create, store and share any document or sheet in a secure and decentralized way.

Graphite firmly believes that when you create something, the creator:

• should own it
• should be able to store it where the creator wants
• should be able to access it when the creator wants to
• should be able to use it how the creator wants to use it
• should be able to share it (control access).

And, when you use Graphite in connection with the Blockstack browser (which provides the platform for encrypting (saving) and decrypting the data (loading it)), neither Graphite (nor Blockstack):

• has access to your information (data is encrypted only for the user to see or share…)
• store your data (this is done on the storage platform the user selected via blockstack browser and is secure/encrytped)

Create something new without giving up your privacy or ownership – go Graphite.  For more on Graphite, please visit here.  For a more personal and close-up look at Graphite, please visit with Mr. Hunter at Blockstack Berlin – go Blockstack Berlin.

Visit the Blockstack Berlin site here.

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