[GTALUG-Announce] Meeting on 14 June 2016 - Nerd Money with Warren McPherson

[Myles Braithwaite]

<http://gtalug.org/meeting/2016-06/>

# Nerd Money with Warren McPherson

The outrage, the greed, the cryptography, the possibilities!

**Crypto Literacy** - a quick kindergarten class of the foundational
ideas that enable the current crop of "Applied Cryptography"
applications.

**Innovation of Bitcoin** - After a hundred failed attempts to create
digital money the innovations of Hashcash and Bitcoin Mining turn out
to be the enablers for a new internet epoch.

**Blockchains and Society** - Polarising emotional debates where
people arguing contradictory positions all imagine themselves to be
defending the little guy.

The dichotomy between open Bitcoin community and advocates of private,
permission led blockchains.

## Location

George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre
245 Church Street, Room 203
Ryerson University

<http://goo.gl/maps/16oJ2>

<http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/23447525>

## Schedule

* 6:00 pm - Please discuss on the general mailing list (i.e.
<talk at gtalug.org>) where you want to go for dinner.
* 7:30 pm - Meeting and presentation.
* 9:00 pm - After each meeting a group of GTALUGers move to The
Imperial Pub (54 Dundas St East) for refreshments and more
socialising.

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