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The All Things Open Conference was really impressive. This is only its fourth year and attendance was reported at 2,400.
The crowd was diverse. Front-end developers and designers, backend developers, infrastructure, management, and of course blockchain.
As a presenter in the blockchain track, I received a lot of attention. Everybody wanted to know more about crypto-currency so that gave me the perfect opportunity to talk about Dash. On Wednesday evening, there was a speaker and sponsor dinner. Whenever introductions were made, it was the blockchain speakers who got serious attention.
During most of my one-on-one conversations, the feature most people were interested in was InstantSend. Most people came to the correct conclusion on their own (viz. Dash is ideally placed to compete with credit card transactions). For people who don’t live and breath crypto, they were shocked to learn that bitcoin takes (a theoretical) 10 minutes to secure a transaction. Their response was usually something along the lines of “how does bitcoin expect to attract merchants?”
A couple of the people I spoke with tracked me down later on and asked about specific use cases. In two cases, their were direct integration questions. For these two individuals, I put them in contact with @babygiraffe. We’ll have to wait and see if anything develops.
My presentation was on the following day. Each presentation room had about 75 chairs. I did not take a head count in my room (nerves), but it appeared to be about half full. One of the forum members was in the crowd, so hopefully he will jump on this thread and provide additional details. I don’t want to out him without permission
I think the presentation went well. There was not a recording due to budgetary constraints with the conference. This being an open source conference, I made sure to highlight how the Dash project is able to succeed as an open source project. I highlighted the features that make Dash an attractive cryptocurrency for day to day transactions (merchant transactions). The basic outline was a follows.
The All Things Open Conference was really impressive. This is only its fourth year and attendance was reported at 2,400.
The crowd was diverse. Front-end developers and designers, backend developers, infrastructure, management, and of course blockchain.
As a presenter in the blockchain track, I received a lot of attention. Everybody wanted to know more about crypto-currency so that gave me the perfect opportunity to talk about Dash. On Wednesday evening, there was a speaker and sponsor dinner. Whenever introductions were made, it was the blockchain speakers who got serious attention.
During most of my one-on-one conversations, the feature most people were interested in was InstantSend. Most people came to the correct conclusion on their own (viz. Dash is ideally placed to compete with credit card transactions). For people who don’t live and breath crypto, they were shocked to learn that bitcoin takes (a theoretical) 10 minutes to secure a transaction. Their response was usually something along the lines of “how does bitcoin expect to attract merchants?”
A couple of the people I spoke with tracked me down later on and asked about specific use cases. In two cases, their were direct integration questions. For these two individuals, I put them in contact with @babygiraffe. We’ll have to wait and see if anything develops.
My presentation was on the following day. Each presentation room had about 75 chairs. I did not take a head count in my room (nerves), but it appeared to be about half full. One of the forum members was in the crowd, so hopefully he will jump on this thread and provide additional details. I don’t want to out him without permission
I think the presentation went well. There was not a recording due to budgetary constraints with the conference. This being an open source conference, I made sure to highlight how the Dash project is able to succeed as an open source project. I highlighted the features that make Dash an attractive cryptocurrency for day to day transactions (merchant transactions). The basic outline was a follows.
- Dash as an open source project
- Features. What are they and how do they work.
- InstantSend
- PrivateSend
- Incentivized Infrastructure. Masternodes and how they support the “better than bitcoin” features.
- Dash treasury and Governance.
- Dash Evolution
