On October 25, 2019, Michael Kratsios, current US CTO, attended the COSM Technology Summit in Bellevue, WA.  

Peter Thiel at the COSM Technology Summit discussing education, blockchain, and how to make the US more competitive in the technology marketplace. 

Peter Thiel discussing and sharing his thoughts at the COSM Technology Summit on life after Google. 

An in-depth discussion on cryptocurrencies, blockchain technologies and policy with Director of Technology Policy for the Chamber of Digital Commerce, Paul Brigner.  

In this week's Decentralize Me podcast, ArcBlock's Shanghai-based team interviews blockchain pioneer, and CEO of QuarkChain, Qi Zhou.   During the discussion, a broad range of topics are discussed including what are the biggest challenges in the blockchain industry today,  the benefits of sharding and how it is different compared to other methods like side chains, differences between Proof of Stake and Proof of Work, and some great success stories leading into 2020 and beyond.  

Aleks Kuzmanovic, CTO of BloXroute, talks about the story of BloXroute and how something born in academia has turned into one of the most promising blockchain projects coming into the marketplace.  We discuss the challenges that the team has had to overcome, and how a new blockchain distribution network helps to solve some of the key scalability problems facing Ethereum and Bitcoin including a look at a very successful test with Bitcoin Cash.  Plus, we discuss what is next for the company and where they see the blockchain industry going in the next few years. 

ArcBlock AMA with ABT Consensus Community on May 20, 2019 discussing the launch of the new ABT Wallet. 

Forge Framework and Forge SDK release AMA with ABT Consensus Community.  

Host Matt McKinney joins LifeID CEO Chris Boscolo to discuss the benefits of decentralized identity and the role it will have in transforming how users interact and use the next generation internet.   During this episode, a wide range of topics around decentralized identity are discussed including how the potential use of decentralized identity (DID) and how the potential benefits for user data privacy may be impacted by today's leading technology companies like Google and Facebook, the role the government has to play to establishing decentralized identity as a right, as well as discussing how new forms of decentralized identity could disrupt other industries and change how companies obtain and use personal data.

Part 1 of our interview with ArcBlock CEO Robert Mao.  ArcBlock is a leading blockchain development platform launching quite a few interesting services in the months ahead.  We covered a range of topics during the discussion including: The importance of DID and the role it will play in future iterations of blockchain  offerings interconnected blockchain?  Interconnected blockchains and networks How an evolving, continuously growing network will far surpass the capabilities of today's blockchains like Ethereum and Bitcoin Stay tuned for Part 2 later this week.  https://www.arcblock.io