The BLOCKCHANCE Conference Hamburg 2018 ‘The future of economics’ opened its doors for two days on August 24th and 25th .
It created a platform for the exchange of knowledge, experience and deep insights into the field of the blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies.
This event taught beginners in blockchain about the socio-economic impact of the coming blockchain revolution and also allowed for advanced crypto enthusiasts to have a platform for community building and meeting like-minded people.
The first BLOCKCHANCE Conference was a great success with over 350 attendees, 35 fantastic speakers and exhibitors and more than 25 press members and media agencies. This was the biggest blockchain conference in north Germany in 2018 for now.
Sponsors of the event included Skycoin, Audi Deutschland, CityofHamburg, KODAKOne, Airbus, OXMOX etc.
Speakers at the event included Synth of Skycoin
Dr. Sebastian Saxe (CDO at Ministry of Economics, Transport and Innovation of Hamburg and patron of BLOCKCHANCE Conference), Carsten Ovens (Representative of the Hamburg State Parliament), Michael Fritz (Co-Founder of Viva con Agua de Sankt Pauli e.V.), Alfred Jost (CFO at GLBrain and CEO at Solar Bankers), Pia Victoria Poppenreiter (CEO at Ohlala), Wolfgang Pinegger (CEO at GLBrain), Jan Denecke (CEO at KODAKOne), Oliver Naegele (CEO at Helix Orange and member of the German Blockchain Foundation), Bessem Ayari (Airbus ProtoSpace), Peter Großkopf (CTO at solarisBank), Robby Schwertner, (Blockchain influencer, crypto blogger aka. Crypto Robby), Sascha Westermann (Projektmanagement-Office ITS of Hamburg, Hamburger Hochbahn AG), Daken Freeborn (Director of Events at Skycoin), Thomas Modeneis (Co-Founder of MDL), Isaac Thomas (CEO at VEGANcoin), Dr. Carlo Maragliono (CTO at Solar Bankers), Alex Jost (CEO at Distributed Blocks), Samatar Liban (Co-Founder of Africa SunTec GmbH), Harald Neidhardt (Curator and CEO at Futur/io Institute) Jan Meyer (CEO and Founder at Dash Embassy DACH), Melanie Mohr (CEO at YEAY), Erich K. (CMO at Kitty Cash, Jens Kappe & Daniel Wischer (CVO and CPO at BEAT.org), Matt Oksa (Events Lead EMEA at Skycoin), David Matheijs & Jorge Daniel Sangines Füchtner (CMO and CTO at GoForIt Walk&Win), Moritz Schildt (Founder at coinIX), Tobias Meyer (CEO at Beercoin).
The event was put together by SKYFI and MLOVE
SKYFI supports various projects that work on a decentralized blockchain-internet and other sustainable blockchain projects in the areas of events, marketing, sponsoring and networking. www.skyfi.org
MLOVE is a global community that shares a passion to drive the Future of Mobility, Internet of Things and Smart Cities.
MLOVE Salons are organized locally in various cities like Singapore, Tokyo, Vienna, Dublin, London, Lissabon and Austin. MLOVE events bring together CxOs, innovators and entrepreneurs from across multiple disciplines to share, learn and cross-pollinate ideas with an array of scientists, artists and other thought leaders. The event exposes you to the best minds to maximize the opportunity of creating life-changing services and applications that can impact us all for the better. www.mlove.com
The conference was a wonderful opportunity to show how Skycoin will provide open access to information and supports free speech while mitigating the abilities of centralized powers to censor/block/control by providing new and free decentralized Internet.
It was a platform to show that Skycoin is more than a cryptocurrency. It’s the fuel that drives Skywire, the new distributed internet. Users receive Skycoins for distributing services across Skywire and supporting peer-to-peer networking.
Skycoin opens the future of digital currency to all investors, not just a select few. It’s simple, secure, and usable. Better still, Skycoin solves the structural problems that plague so many other cryptocurrencies. With Skycoin, we’re taking the next step in digital currency evolution.
Harald Neidhardt, CEO and Founder of MLOVE moderated the Q &A session
Synth used the opportunity to tell the history of skycoin, which was conceptualized over 10 years ago, and real development, which started over 8 years ago.
The motivation to create skycoin was to correct the flaws and deficiency of first and second-generation cryptocurrency like Bitcoin and Ethereum.
The Skycoin Platform is the most advanced blockchain platform in the world
Skycoin’s platform is completely secure, infinitely scalable, and ISP independent. Backed by bandwidth, storage, and computational power Skycoin is built to fulfil Satoshi’s original vision.
He elaborated on the skycoin ecosystem of technologies that work together in unison to provide a complete package.
Skywire – Skywire is a blockchain-based Internet service that removes the ageing centralized protocols used for today’s Internet. This mesh network consists of thousands of nodes that connect to each other directly for forwarding and routing of Internet traffic. This creates a spider web-like network or mesh that is more stable, secure and faster than the current World Wide Web.
Obelisk – To tackle this centralization problem, Skycoin moves beyond PoW/PoS. It uses a distributed consensus algorithm, called Obelisk, which distributes influence over the network according to a “web of trust”. In essence, every node has a list of other nodes that it subscribes to, and the density of a node’s network of subscribers determines its influence on the network. Each node is assigned a personal blockchain which acts as a “public broadcasting channel” on which all of a node’s actions are visible and publicly recorded.
Fiber – Skycoin’s Fiber network was built elegantly from the ground up to be robust, customizable and infinitely scalable. The beauty of Fiber is in its architecture, which allows it to easily overcome the challenges not solved by Bitcoin and Ethereum. In order to eliminate the slow speed and high cost of transactions, with the Fiber network, Skycoin’s team created a new consensus protocol known as Obelisk.
Each project on the fiber platform has its own blockchain.
He went further to inform the audience that skycoin is developing antennas. He reiterated the fact that skywire is defined by a relationship between nodes and by the ability for information to move between them, not by any particular transport medium between nodes.
The antennas provide the ability to move information without having to use Tier 3 ISP (e.g. Comcast) -owned infrastructure and will make it easier for more people to participate in the network, but they are not required for the core functionality of Skywire to work.
The testnet of skywire is without antennas and it is for testing the economic models of coin hours, fixing bugs of the Skywire software and incentivising people to build the Skywire Miner hardware.
The next step beyond the mainnet launch will be ISP independence for the Skywire network.
The antennas will provide a significant upgrade to the Skywire network’s capabilities and will bring us closer to a future where everyone can become their own Internet service provider .
He used the occasion to show finished prototypes of motorized antennae which will help to form a mesh of nodes that will propagate the skywire decentralized internet .
He also used the occasion to announce the launch of the first official Android version of their mobile wallet.
This initial version of Skycoin's mobile wallet includes all the basic and some advanced features as well that incorporate flexibility as well as security.
The wallet also included a more advanced feature where you can select the specific UTXO (unspent outputs) for sending Skycoin. This allows a more flexible customization of Coin Hours usage for your needs
To make your wallet even more secure, your wallet seeds are hardware encrypted and never leave your device.
He used the occasion to show finished prototypes of the Skycoin hardware wallet that will support all fiber projects and the top 100 coins on CMC. Integration with ledger is at an advanced stage.
All recipients of the official skyminer will get a free hardware wallet.
The best thing is that these wallets will be less than $25 dollars.
Everybody at the occasion wanted to learn about the skyminer.
The skyminer is the hardware of the new and free decentralized Internet. Its custom-built hardware exceeds technical specifications to deliver maximum power and performance. Skywire functions as a “miner” for Skycoin. It acts as a specialized VPN.
Skyminers provide computing power, networking capability, and storage capacity necessary for the Skywire network to function properly. Skyminers act as specialized VPNs and nodes on the mesh network that allows users to essentially become their own ISP, granting user freedom to engage with the encrypted network, Skywire .
People were looking forward to seeing a gigantic hardware like bitcoin and ethereum miners but were shocked at the sleek and fanciful piece of an electronic gadget the skyminer is.
It is estimated that an official 8-board miner uses an average of 23 watts. Assuming an average price of 12 US cents per kilowatt-hour, it will cost the US $24.19 to run the Skyminer for the entire year. Even if the Skyminer is running at a maximum current of its power supply, the cost of running will only be US $105.19 in a year. The same amount you will use to charge your cell phone in one year .
The testnet of the skycoin project has been running since May and the Skycoin project doles out the US $250,000 in Skycoins to the Skyfleet community for supporting the network monthly.
The talk on skyminer ended with skycoin giving away one of the miners to a lucky winner Yana.
She was so excited. She heard about cryptocurrency and blockchain for the first time in 2017 and very grateful for the skycoin team for choosing her a winner.
As at the time of putting up this report, she was busy putting up her skyminer.
The Chinese skycoin team was also in attendance to present the skycoin ecosystem to the audience.
Ably represented by the COO of the skycoin team Chris Wong, He went over the skycoin ecosystem and the future of the project
Synth was the cynosure of all eyes as he dazzled them with his freshness, brilliance and pure knowledge when it comes to blockchain, skycoin and its vision and the future of the industry in general.
Love him, hate him, despise him, revere him, when Synth talks, everyone listens.
Professor Stefan Brunnhuber member of the club of Rome, European academy and political consultant at EU commission listened with rapt attention to Synth with rapt attention as he broke down skycoin ecosystem and how it could potentially change the world.
Some of the takeaways from the conference include
- Skycoin has announced a partnership with http://locaheroes.com/en/ a Czech-based startup who will provide a point-of-sale system that will allow their existing business customers to accept Skycoin as a payment.
They will bring Skyminers to local businesses who will be able to provide free, decentralized and anonymous internet to their customers and make a little bit of money on it. CoinHours are currently in a discussion and we're working on creating a monetary value for CH to allow the community to spend CH in some other ways than just Skywire.
KittyCash has announced a breeding that will go live in only a few weeks and will allow players to start breeding their KittyDrop Kitties. Also in the works are celebrities being designed by the kitty cash team for entertainment and sports stars. Expect LeBron James, Stef curry, Kim Kardashian, Christiano Ronaldo,
Beyoncé, Selena Gomez, Kendall Jenner, Dwayne Johnson, Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande and many more kitties in the coming day and these kitties will be dropped on their timelines in Instagram, Twitter and all their social media outlets. Games will also be developed to portray these celebrities for promotional use.
In addition, some of the biggest sporting franchises and clubs will also have kitties/mascots designed by the kitty cash team.
Skycoin has also started a discussion about a partnership with https://africanblockchain.org/ conference that takes place annually in Uganda. This year many big names attended such as CZ (Ceo of Binance), President of Mauritius, President of Uganda, and many more. Africa is often forgotten about when it comes to business development and skycoin see a great potential in this partnership, as it would be a very good "testing ground" for Skywire.
Skycoin is still determining which city in the world will be the first skywire city.
Despite all the gloom in the market, it has come to the stage where the market is thinning out projects that cannot survive. Once that's done, the true projects will start to rise and no one needs a soothsayer to say that skycoin is very well positioned to take its rightful place in the space.
Crypto will have mass adoption in the future, the technologies in the past prove it. In the end, the tech-savvy people investing in crypto now (<1% of the world) will be the biggest winners in the next decade.
The major reason for the interest of regulatory agencies in crypto is a belated attempt to keep them relevant. They are not relevant, and their future involvement will only drive the development of non-territorial crypto and blockchain technology whereby interfering actors are sidelined. Once Blockchains and cryptocurrencies become completely decentralized, regulators will be rendered obsolete.
Remember new technologies that shift the paradigm takes a long time to really understand and I think anyone invested in the skycoin project is way ahead of others.
In these trying period, Skycoin has come out with hardware wallets, antennas for second-generation skyminers, mobile wallet, more exchange listings and launched and pays skyfleet for testing skywire and also launching a skycoin shop for merchandise.
All these go to show that sky in safe hands and time to contribute your quota in changing the world with this groundbreaking technology
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