From eli at billauer.co.il  Sat Oct 25 18:54:52 2014
From: eli at billauer.co.il (Eli Billauer)
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 18:54:52 +0300
Subject: [HAIFUX LECTURE] Bitcoin -- Daniel Brunstein
Message-ID: <544BC7CC.2090901@billauer.co.il>

On Monday, October 27th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear a talk by 
Daniel Brunstein:

    Bitcoin - What and Why

Abstract

General Agenda

    * What is Bitcoin
    * Wallets (mobile, cloud, cold storage)
    * Price and Market Capacitance
    * Worldwide adoption by big corporations and merchants
    * Regulatory environment
    * Billion Dollar Markets being disrupted by Bitcoin
    * Alternative crypto-currencies and Bitcoin 2.0
    * VC investment in Bitcoin startups
    * Bitcoin in Israel
    * Bitcoin in the Academy

Technical Agenda

    * Public/private keys
    * Mining
    * Blockchain
    * Security, 51% attack

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We meet in Taub building, room 6. For instructions see:
http://www.haifux.org/where.html

Attendance is free, and you are all invited!

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Future lectures:

There are no scheduled lectures.


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We are always interested in hearing your talks and ideas. If you wish to 
give a talk, hold a discussion, or just plan some event haifux might be 
interested in, please contact us atwebmaster at haifux.org

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