Bitcoin news: ICOs – The Developer’s Perspective

23. November 2018crypto-economy Article

The next panel and the next day were ultimately dedicated to developers: In the panel, Max Kordek, CEO of Lisk, Henning Dietrich, a programmer and bestselling author, Peter Harris of Resonate and Remco Bloemen of Neufund discussed their experiences and backgrounds regarding ICOs. It was interesting to discuss the technical aspect of decentralized crowdfunding after the discussion of the regulatory framework.

The discussion also focused on what is meant by the term crypto-economy. Roughly speaking, it can be summarized that this bulky term can be understood as a technology-based economy. Inflation is of course a keyword here; different protocols permit deterministic inflation and deflation rates. However, this technology does not stand as an absolute monarch; only through consensus, the community’s agreement on certain aspects of technology, can the crypto-economy become effective.

Blockchain for investors – Bitcoin news projects introduce themselves

On the second day of the events organised by Bitcoin news, various projects had the opportunity to introduce themselves to an interested audience. With Neufund and Bitcoin news, two projects represented on the above-mentioned panels were present for a second time and were able to discuss their projects in more detail. Starbase and Dent were two other projects.

After the first day ICOs and decentralized crowdfunding were illuminated from different sides it was interesting to see how different projects want to revolutionize ICOs: Neufund sees itself as a decentralised investment ecosystem and Starbase as a service provider offering token funding as a service, i.e. organising an ICO for interested parties.

Bitnation’s Toni Lane presented the vision behind her project

A nation beyond existing borders, which exists on the internet and uses the blockchain for various tasks.

Mikko Linnamäki of DENT finally presented his project – a disruption of the mobile phone market – and above all his experiences with the organisation of an ICO. The humorous lecture, which dealt with trolls in slack channels, fanboys from South Korea and critics on bitcointalk, was a pleasant conclusion for the two evenings. Thanks to Sven Läpple and Astratum for these events on crypto-economy!