{"id":539,"date":"2018-12-04T10:21:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T10:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/org.saito.tech\/?p=539"},"modified":"2022-04-21T10:19:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T10:19:28","slug":"saito-invited-to-present-at-tsinghua-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saito.tech\/saito-invited-to-present-at-tsinghua-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Saito invited to present at Tsinghua University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are very pleased to have been invited by the Tsinghua International Blockchain Association to attend and present at their December 5 meeting.<br \/>\nThis has been an exciting few weeks for Team Saito as some of our key ideas have been front and centre in the media, and have now become part of a much wider industry discussion.<br \/>\nNamely:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scaling and security <strong>are related<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Challenges scaling and securing blockchains are not engineering challenges \u2014 they are <strong>economic<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The event at Tsinghua University will start with an in-depth investigation from my co-founder David Lancashire (@dlancashi) of these economic challenges and how we\u2019re seeing them play out in the space. This will be followed by a short software demo showing the possibilities opened up by tackling these economic issues.<br \/>\nThe evening will then close with a panel discussion featuring Jack Liao (CEO of LIGHTNINGASIC), John Gordon (partner at INBlockchain) and Richard Bensberg (CEO of epiapi), and which will cover The Hash War and its implications for Bitcoin Security, as well as the future of Proof-of-Work blockchains and the markets.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Event details:<\/strong><br \/>\nWed 5 Nov at Tsinghua xSpace (Beijing) \u65b0\u6e05\u534e\u5b66\u5802 \u2014 entrance via the south-east corner of the Meng Minwei Concert Hall on Tsinghua University campus.<br \/>\nDoors at 5.30pm | Event starts at 6pm (Beijing time)<br \/>\nEvent is free, and open to all, but please bring passport ID or similar for entry. Those not in Beijing can follow the event via the audio livestream (scan the QR code below).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-537 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/saito.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Tsinghua_LiveAudio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"294\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are very pleased to have been invited by the Tsinghua International Blockchain Association to attend and present at their December 5 meeting. This has been an exciting few weeks for Team Saito as some of our key ideas have been front and centre in the media, and have now become part of a much wider industry discussion. Namely: Scaling and security are related. And Challenges scaling and securing blockchains are not engineering challenges \u2014 they are economic. The event at Tsinghua University will start with an in-depth investigation from my co-founder David Lancashire (@dlancashi) of these economic challenges and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-events"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Saito invited to present at Tsinghua University - Saito<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We are very pleased to have been invited by the Tsinghua International Blockchain Association to attend and present at their December 5 meeting.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/saito.tech\/saito-invited-to-present-at-tsinghua-university\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Saito invited to present at Tsinghua University - 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