Ethereum Devcon1: Expert View of the First Day

Aron van Ammers, Chief Technology Officer and Founder of BlockStars.io, continues his coverage of Ethereum Devcon1 with his recap of Day 4. Day four of Ethereum Devcon1 consisted of a showcase of the many different DApps that are being developed. A prediction market makes it possible to bet on the outcome of events. These could be the obvious sports events, but also political decisions or even the planning of a construction project. The concept of prediction markets has been researched for many years before the introduction of blockchains, and it turns out they can lead to very accurate....

Aron van Ammers, Chief Technology Officer and Founder of BlockStars.io, continues his exclusive report of the third day of the Ethereum Devcon1. It’s his exclusive experts’ vision, reserved only for the readers of the Cointelegraph media outlet. We give you his text as it is. On the third day, Ethereum Devcon1 zoomed in to the Ethereum protocols underlying the blockchain platform. The presentations of the low-level mechanics were alternated with same presentations of concrete DApps. For a developer of Ethereum DApps, it's not absolutely necessary to know how the blockchain itself works,....

Exclusively for the readers of Cointelegraph media outlet Aron van Ammers, Chief Technology Officer and Founder of BlockStars.io, continues his exclusive report of the second day of the Ethereum Devcon1. We give you his text as it is. Day two of Ethereum Devcon1 was all about the development of DApps: distributed applications, the apps of the Ethereum ecosystem. DApps are principally fully distributed: they require no centralized server, database or network address and are resilient to censorship and common attack vectors of traditional web apps. Because DApps on a blockchain comprise a....

Aron van Ammers, Chief Technology Officer and Founder of BlockStars.io, shares his thoughts on the final day of Ethereum Devcon1. After four days of learning about the underlying technology of Ethereum, the tools and strategies to build decentralized applications, and a showcase of what people have built already, the apotheosis of Devcon1 was a day filled with philosophical and strategic perspective. The keynote of the day was given by blockchain and smart contracts pioneer Nick Szabo. In his presentation he put the development of blockchains in a historical perspective of the previous....

Arguably one of the most eagerly awaited talks during the Ethereum's Devcon1 conference in London was that of Marley Gray from Microsoft. Shortly before Devcon1 the community was surprised with the announcement that IT giant Microsoft had entered into a partnership with Ethereum-focused company Consensys and would sponsor Devcon1. What would this mean for Ethereum as a technology, the thriving community and the possibilities to build on it? Aron van Ammers, Chief Technology Officer and Founder of BlockStars.io, a participant of Ethereum's DevCon1, gave CoinTelegraph his exclusive insight....