Airbnb Tech Talk: Decentralized Payments with Bitcoin
Airbnb, the San Francisco-based website that helps connect hosts and guests for lodging across 192 countries, announced on their blog that they will host a Tech Talk this Wednesday on Bitcoin technology and the blockchain with guest speaker Adrian Macneil, the Director of Engineering at Coinbase. From their blog, they explain what the evening will consist of: "In this talk, Adrian will take a deep dive into the blockchain, and look at how transactions are generated and broadcast in a completely trustless peer-to-peer network. He will discuss what role miners play in this network, and....
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