Blockchain and decentralized architectures
Channel: FAST - Fundación Argentina de Smalltalk
Date: 2018-12-19

Esteban Maringolo

In 2008 a paper published by a pseudonymous author named Satoshi Nakamoto introduced Bitcoin as the first pure peer-to-peer electronic money that didn't require intermediate institutions to work.

To achieve such feat the author synthesized different technologies and ideas and defined new ones that became the building blocks to create new decentralized systems. Since then a new wave of applications and organizations was set in motion and it is growing on a daily basis.

This talk want to spread awareness about cryptocurrencies, blockchain and related ideas because of its general relevance and because Smalltalk, both as a technology and as a community, can use this opportunity to show its strengths and raise its public visibility.