Hello!Today we wrapped up day 1 of Filecoin Liftoff Week. We heard from Filecoin founder Juan Benet, Stanford professor Dan Boneh, Polychain Capital founder Olaf Carlson-Wee, Colin Evran of Protocol Labs, and Protocol Labs outside general counsel Marta Belcher.
If you haven’t already, join us tomorrow for another day of incredible content, workshops, talks, demos, and more.
A quick overview of today’s talks:
Juan Benet, Founder and CEO of Protocol Labs talked about Filecoin’s mission to “create a decentralized, efficient, and robust foundation for humanity’s information.” He positioned Filecoin’s mission along the evolution of the Internet, and pressed the importance of building solutions today that are sustainable for whatever the future holds.
Dan Boneh, Stanford Professor of Applied Cryptography talked about his decades of work in cryptography and how blockchain technology has enabled many cryptographic tools to be tested in a previously-unsustainable way. He stressed the importance of ensuring blockchain technology remains public and open, and reminisced on his years teaching blockchain technology to growing and fiercely dedicated groups of young computer scientists at Stanford.
Colin Evran, Ecosystem Lead at Protocol Labs stressed the importance of finding a sustainable storage solution for humanity’s 175 zetabytes of data by 2024, and ensuring that more than just 5-7% of it is stored, as it is today. Olaf Carlson-Wee, Polychain Capital founder explained what he found most interesting and attractive about the Filecoin network, its consensus architecture, and the opportunity for more robust applications to be built using Filecoin’s storage solution. Marta Belcher, Protocol Labs’ outside counsel, introduced the Filecoin Foundation to the world, explaining the vision and goals of the Foundation and setting the stage for the week’s final event on friday, “Meet the Filecoin Foundation.”
Tomorrow, we have another packed day planned for attendees. The focus of tomorrow’s agenda is “Mining on Filecoin” - answering any and all questions you have about what it’s like to be a miner on the Filecoin network. Some highlights from the agenda tomorrow:
11am PDT: Kick off day 2 with “Filecoin Proofs and Upcoming Improvements”, a presentation with Kelly Olson and Sean Gulley of Supranational and Dignifiedquire of Protocol Labs
12pm PDT: “Filecoin Mining for Solo Miners”, a detailed workshop for individual miners with Filecoin miner, Benjamin Hoesjbo
3:30pm PDT: Join Jacques Swanepoel of StorageHive and Neo Ge, co-founder of IPFSMain for their “Filecoin Mining Hardware & Architecture” talk as they take you through their setups and architecture and discuss some of the things to consider and avoid when constructing your rigs.
5:20pm PDT: Join some of Filecoin's top global miners to learn how they won Space Race at the “How We Won the Space Race” panel
7:05pm PDT: “Filecoin Security and Bug Bounty Program” with Deep Kapur and David Dias of Protocol Labs
See the full agenda and register for tomorrow:
See you tomorrow!
The Filecoin Team