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Keynote: Ethereum in 30 minutes
Vitalik Buterin, Founder of Ethereum, opens Devcon with a comprehensive overview of Ethereum’s evolution as a decentralized “world computer,” explaining its layer 1 trust machine and layer 2 scaling solutions for security and scalability, emphasizing improvements in decentralization and client diversity, and encouraging developers to build innovative applications that leverage Ethereum’s robust and evolving ecosystem.
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Keynote: Redefining boundaries in the Infinite Garden
Aya Miyaguchi, Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation, opens Devcon by emphasizing the importance of nurturing Ethereum as an infinite garden—a decentralized, long-term ecosystem built on shared values, overlapping spheres of influence, and collaborative growth beyond singular control.
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Keynote: Lessons learned from Tor
I will share lessons learned during Tor's twenty years as free software fighting for privacy and human rights. We'll talk about distributed trust and privacy by design, how to help people understand the good uses of your tech, getting allies in both cypherpunks and government, why transparency and community-building are so essential to trust, and successes from other spaces. It may seem like the crypto wars never really end, but we all have a part to play in saving the world.
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Keynote: World Politics, World Building
World politics has changed. Geopolitics is no longer simply a contest to control territory: in this age of advanced technology, it has become a contest to create the territory. Great powers seek to build a world for other states to inhabit, while keeping the ability to change the rules or the state of the world when necessary. At a moment when the old concepts no longer work, this book aims to introduce a radically new theory of world politics and technology. The end goal: god mode




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Devcon SEA
Bangkok, Thailand
Nov 12 - Nov 15, 2024
Devcon SEA brought the Ethereum ecosystem to South America, to Bogotá, Colombia. Devcon keeps growing, and with over 6,000 attendees and contributors, around 350 speakers, and 9 talk rooms, it was the biggest Devcon yet. Rumors has it that it was also the best Devcon ever.
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