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Wien
We meetup every first Wednesday in a coffee house to contribute to open source, work on personal projects, and teach and learn from one another. Join us.
Upcoming
- Wednesday, January 8th, 2020, 7-9pm @ Segafredo Espresso Praterstern, Bahnhof Wien Nord, 1020 Wien (Leopoldstadt)
- Wednesday, February 5th, 2020, 7-9pm @ Segafredo Espresso Praterstern, Bahnhof Wien Nord, 1020 Wien (Leopoldstadt)
- Wednesday, March 4th, 2020, 7-9pm @ Segafredo Espresso Praterstern, Bahnhof Wien Nord, 1020 Wien (Leopoldstadt)
Note: We meetup in a public coffee house. If you attend you MUST buy a drink for yourself (e.g. a coffee, mineral water, cola, or something). Calculate about €3 or €4.
Past
Happy New Year - Prosit 2020!
- Wednesday, December 4th, 2019, 7-9pm @ Segafredo Espresso Praterstern, Bahnhof Wien Nord, 1020 Wien (Leopoldstadt)
- Wednesday, November 6th, 2019, 7-9pm @ Segafredo Espresso Praterstern, Bahnhof Wien Nord, 1020 Wien (Leopoldstadt)
Sept/2019 - Boneh–Lynn–Shacham (BLS) Signatures - Better than Schnorr? - Pairing Crypto Step-by-Step Programming Tutorial (in Rust) by Jan Kaul
May/2019 - (Programming) Private Transactions with Mimblewimble (in Rust) by Jan Kaul
April/2020 - EDCON 2020 is a yearly world Ethereum Development Conference that happens April 3-7, 2020 right here in Vienna, Austria (the last stops where in Sydney, Toronto and Paris in 2019, 2018 and 2017).
Jan/2020 - Celebrating 11 Years of Bitcoin Blockchain on January 3rd @ Bitcoin Austria Meetup No. 73. Free.
Oct/2019 - Developer Melange is a monthly podcast / talk recording in a Vienna coffee house. In episode 21 guest Gerald Bauer talks about "Programmable Money".
Revolutionize Austria one Block at a Time. Land der Berge! Land der Blockchain!
It's an umbrella organization to learn about Blockchain! Blockchain! Blockchain! together with a focus on Code! Code! Code!
b0 = Block.first(
{ from: "Grossklockner", to: "Franz", amount: 3798 } )
b1 = Block.next( b0,
{ from: "Dachstein", to: "Sissi", amount: 2995 },
{ from: "Sissi", to: "Maria", amount: 11 },
{ from: "Franz", to: "Ferdl", amount: 7 },
{ from: "Maria", to: "Eva", amount: 3 } )
...Awewsome Blockchains -- Learn about Blockchains by Building One
Tulips on the Blockchain @ Awesome Blockchains -- Public Distributed (Hyper) Ledger Book - Learn by Example from the Real World (Anno 1637) - Buy! Sell! Hold! Enjoy the Beauty of Admiral of Admirals, Semper Augustus and More
Blockchain Lite Library (Ruby Edition), FREE
Blockchain Lite Library (JavaScript Edition), FREE
Talk Notes - Blockchain! Blockchain! Blockchain! - Build Your Own Blockchains in JavaScript from Zero (Scratch) by Gerald Bauer
Talk Notes - Blockchain! Blockchain! Blockchain! - Build Your Own Blockchains in Ruby from Zero (Scratch) by Gerald Bauer
Talk Notes - Land der Berge! Land der Blockchain! Austria by Gerald Bauer
Book - Programming Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains (in Ruby) by Gerald Bauer, Yuki & Moto Press, FREE (Online Version)
Blockchain Austria (Centralized Government Edition)
Bitcoin Austria, (github) • Bitcoin Austria Meetup -- we are an austrian non-profit organization founded 2011 with the aim to promote Bitcoin in Austria. We organize regular meetups for everyone interested in Bitcoin.
RIAT (Research Institute for Arts and Technology) incl. Blockchain Academy -- institute for research, development, communication and education in the fields of crypto-economics, the blockchain, experimental artistic technology and open hardware.
Ethereum Vienna, Austria Meetup, (github) -- cryptocurrencies have the power to change how we conduct global commerce and govern our society on a profound level. Ethereum is a platform for trustless and decentralized applications. Potential examples are simple payments, registrar services, crowdfunding, implementing other currencies, prediction markets, fully decentralized exchanges or even decentralized autonomous organizations. We contribute to this movement by bringing together interested locals, enthusiasts and veterans for a meetup in Vienna, Austria.
Monero Vienna, Austria Meetup -- group for people interested in the cryptocurrency Monero (XMR). The meetup focuses on communicating news from the Monero project and introduces XMR to a wider audience of programmers and non-programmers alike. Topics are for various skill-sets. Meetups are also used to communicate the results of the Monero Workgroup at RIAT (Research Institute for Arts and Technology).
Dogecoin Vienna, Austria Meetup -- spreading the Doge in Austria, "Dogecoin Austria Meetup" is hosted by RIAT (Research Institute for Arts and Technology). A group about the cryptocurrency Dogecoin - to discuss and reflect about cryptocurrencies as distributed community experiments. Ideal members are people interested in Dogecoin, but can be also people who want to learn and discuss.
Blockchainers Vienna, Austria Meetup -- everyone who is interested in blockchain technology is welcome: explainations, uses case, the future, technology behind. we strongly focus on technical aspects and NOT buzzword presentations.
Hyperledger Vienna, Austria Meetup, (github) -- hyperledger project is an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. It is a global collaboration including leaders in finance, banking, internet of things (IoT), supply chain, manufacturing and technology.
NEM (New Economy Movement) Vienna, Austria Meetup -- group for anyone interested in the NEM (New Economy Movement) blockchain platform or the XEM cryptocurrency. Don't hesitate to join us to get to know more about NEM and the community surrounding it.
| Year | Highlight |
|---|---|
| 2011 - Sept | Bitcoin Austria Started |
| 2012 - Dec | 1st Bitcoin Meetup in Graz |
| 2014 - March | Ethereum Meetup Started |
| 2014 - April | Coinfinity Founded in Graz ++ 1st Bitcoin ATM in Austria (Graz) |
| 2015 - Feb | Bitcoins Available in 600 Trafiken via Bitcoinbon |
| 2016 - April | Dogecoin Austria Meetup Started |
| 2016 - June | Blockchainhub Graz Started |
| 2017 - Jan | House of Nakamoto Opens ++ 1st Bitcoin Store in Austria (Vienna) |
| 2017 - April | Monero Austria Meetup Started |
| 2017 - April | NEM (New Economy Movement) Vienna Meetup Started |
| 2017 - July | Bitcoins Available Nationwide at Post Offices |
| 2017 - Oct | Blockchain Austria (Hacker Ed.) Started |
Tokens, Tokens, Tokens
Hero (Play) Coins on the (Ethereum) Blockchain, (contract source scripts) -- Initial Coin Offer of up to 600 million Ethereum "Hero" tokens ++ Byte Heroes GmbH (Siebenbrunnengasse 17/7, 1050 Vienna, Austria) offers for exchange up to 600 million new Ethereum token named "Hero" (ticker "Play") during a limited offer period starting 14 September 2017.
The ICO will have a hard cap at USD $14m. Heros are tokens on the Ethereum-blockchain intended for online betting and gaming that reward coin holders for playing across multiple online betting and gaming platforms.
(Source: Hero Whitepaper (.pdf))
Revolutionizing online betting - establishing a new level of trust, transparency and security, yet unknown in the world of online betting; 223,748+ users are already betting on their favourite esports games in the herosphere; issued: 57.237.500 Play tokens - unsold tokens will be burned.
In Preparation / Upcoming
Bitshilling - Shilling (or Schilling) on the Blockchain -- Public Distributed (Hyper) Ledger Book - Rock-Solid Alpine Dollar from Austria