Nick Szabo Confirmed as Keynote Speaker at Ethereum Conference
Nick Szabo, Computer Scientist, Cryptographer and Legal Scholar widely regarded as the inventor of the term ‘Smart Contract’ and many of the concepts it holds, will be the keynote speaker at DEVCON1, Ethereum’s yearly developer conference this 2015. The conference is taking place this November the 9 -14 in London UK, and will be covering many aspects of blockchain technology including some engineering challenges that make up this new frontier. Among them is a panel on scalability with Vitalik Buterin, Vlad Zamfir, Gavin Wood, Martin Becze, and Dominic Williams. As well as a presentation....
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The Smart Contract Alliance, an initiative ran by the Chamber of Digital Commerce to promote real-world application of smart contracts, has announced the launch of the Smart Contract Symposium, a conference to take place in New York City on December 5th, 2016. Of particular note is that renowned cryptographer Nick Szabo, who coined the term “smart contracts,” will give the event’s keynote address. Szabo to Keynote New York Symposium. The Chamber expects to host over 250 executives from financial institutions and firms exploring this technology at Microsoft’s Time’s Square Headquarters.....
Nick Szabo is a legal scholar and cryptographer, and although he has categorically denied it, some believe him to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin. Nick is the author of bitgold, which was the most complete conceptualization of a decentralized currency prior to Bitcoin. In November of 2013 Nick Szabo went dark and made his last known public communication for a long time. Seven months passed, and during that time more accusations that he was Satoshi arose. Aston University's Centre for Forensic Linguistics claimed that a forensic analysis of Bitcoins' White Paper suggests that....
Nick Szabo, the author of bitgold, the most complete conceptualization of a decentralized currency prior to bitcoin, the person who coined the term smart contracts in 1993, and believed by many to be Satoshi himself, published a one line blog post today which simply contained a link to his twitter account. The last known public communication from Nick Szabo was in November 2013, almost seven months ago, leaving many to wonder whether he would ever post again. The seven months silence seems to have followed increasing attention on Nick Szabo after numerous suggestions that he might be....