devcon 4 / special projects 2018
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Special Projects 2018
Duration: 00:13:03
Speaker: Virgil Griffith
Type: Talk
Expertise: Intermediate
Event: Devcon
Date: Invalid Date
Grab bag of fun projects, including: fancy oracles, ETH-ETC relations and relays, fancy domains, new swag, new wiki release, islamic finance, opt-in backdoors, ether.cards.
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