The Blockchain Connect Conference, held on Friday, January 26, in San Francisco, USA, did not have a good start. However, the content of the panels, discussions and informal meetings that took place that day was probably delivered to the 1500 participants.

The event, hosted in part by SV Insight, was designed to unify Blockchain communities. The United States and China have attracted more participants than the organizers – or rather the venue itself – could handle.

Yi Lu, Chief Growth Officer and one of the founders of SV Insight, admitted that the number of people the content was very good … But we did not expect so many people, it's really too crowded. "

The venue, a classic European structure remains of a 1915 art exhibition, has a theater designed to accommodate around 900 guests." He added that 1500 tickets had been sold for the event

Lu added that there were 800 more people on the waiting list of the event who did not receive any tickets

who had paid from $ 500 to $ 1,000 for the event, were not allowed to enter the theater to hear the speakers in person and were forced to watch since the " overflowing room "that was not heated and had a bad sound system.

Strict room occupancy standards, enforced by the fire marshal and a number of security guards, were often blocking the participants at the conference in the room where they were

[1 9459005] the exhibition space was filled with booths promoting Blockchain-based businesses, including BlockShow, Cointelegraph's partner company, Blockchain, offering heavily discounted tickets for their next event.

Those who had the chance to initiate Lly sitting in the theater were able to hear a series of roundtables, with topics ranging from the valuation issues tokens and the investment strategies Blockchain, scalability and mathematical language

the tone

Litecoin's creator, Charlie Lee, opened the conference as the first speaker to After the failure of the prerecorded introduction video of venture capitalist Tim Draper.

explaining the details of his latest idea, first announced earlier this month, for a new kind of fee market for Litecoin.

During the Q & A after his speech, Lee discussed what he sees as the goal of altcoins, but noted the status of Bitcoin's "gold standard" (BTC) the dominance as prime mover and superiority in terms of security and decentralization, declaring twice: "Bitcoin w I will be king of crypto as long as I can tell."

China and the United States Connect

Blockchain Connect seeks to bridge the gap between the Blockchain and Crypto communities: the United States and China, both countries that are important players in

Lu Insight called China and the United States "powerhouses" in Blockchain, claiming that the conference was meant to set a tone for the future of Blockchain When asked if it was possible that a similar conference area is held in China, a country that had banned the crypto exchanges and the financing of the ICO in September 2017, Lu was positive but not too optimistic:

we had a chance, and if politics were allowed, we would certainly do that [hold an event in China.] "

Perhaps because of the current regulatory situation in China, the US location of Blockchain Connect was an attractive place for Blockchain experts Kavita Gupta, Managing Partner Founder of ConsenSys in New York, said that one of the main reasons she agreed to be a panelist at the San Francisco conference was the possibility for her " She noted:

"[This is] one of the first initiatives to bring Asia to the United States economy, because Asia is the only One of the great pillars of the symbolic economy e are, even after China banned […] all the companies in which we invest, in the United States, we want to take them to trade in Asia […] We want to build this ecosystem for our businesses "

Chinese Regulations Revisited

The last round table on the conference focused in particular on China's current regulatory environment, offering new approach to the subject. The three panelists, all based in China, noted that the Chinese government has a positive and optimistic view of Blockchain Tech in the long run, and that the trading bans and ICOs are likely preemptive temporary measures put in place for

Yu Lang, the founder and CEO of the VeChain platform, told the public that the September bans were implemented in order to [.] give regulators more time to find the right way to regulate.

Another attendee, Eric Gu, CEO of Metaverse, announced that the ICO's ban was based on the inability to fully understand the market.

"[from the government’s perspective] we can not distinguish between Ponzi schemes and good projects, so we must close them all for the moment."

Gu also said that reason the government was trying to calm itself tim With bans before putting in place clear rules in crypto space, the Chinese government did not want to give examples in the & cr Avec Avec Avec Avec,,,,,,,,, industry, but he would have preferred "to follow the example of other governments." [19459003

Blockchain in academia

As part of a research project at UC Berkeley, speaker and computer science teacher Dawn Song is building a platform elm that will incorporate various applications IA and Blockchain, including in health care and intelligent

In collaboration with two other professors of the faculties of commerce and law of the University, this semester in Berkeley, Song also teaches an interdisciplinary course on the theme "first of its kind" . Blockchain. Commenting on the students' demand for the course, Song said:

"This is extremely popular, we are limited by the capacity of the hall, so there are more than 70 students. But that's a ratio of 4: 1, so for four students, we can only select one. "

During a period when a Cointelegraph journalist was trapped in Overflowing Room, she conducted an interview with Regional Director Chris Cagle of the South Bay Labor Investment Board (SBWIB) and Dr. Jose Navarro Martinez, Associate Professor of Economics. at Cal State Dominguez Hills, about Blockchain in academia.

a study, to be completed in June, on the identification of potential career paths for companies working with Blockchain, from aerospace to health care management. The study will highlight tools that would make high school students and students more attractive to Blockchain-based businesses.

Asked about the specificities of Blockchain's college education, Cagle said:

"They [students] could do business and get a certificate in Blockchain."

The study will also explore the possibility of accessing federal funding that would subsidize training costs, making this type of program available to low-income students.

SV Insight also has its own Blockchain training course, with 180 students learning Blockchain software development. There were over 10,000 candidates in the course, which has a selective admission rate of 10 percent.

A space for risk

Blockchain Connect occurred on the same day Cointelegraph broke the history of the massive coincheck exchange hacking, in which funds from the User totaling more than 500 million dollars in XEM – losses greater than those during the infamous 2014 hacking of Tokyo-based Mt. Gox exchange – were stolen in a hot wallet at Low Security

Right after the release of the story, Cointelegraph had the opportunity to talk to Charlie Lee. Lee's first comment was on the story, joking, "It was not me."

Lee's view of the risk associated with investing in cryptocurrency – and choosing third-party service, like Coincheck – was simple and straightforward. "It's the nature of the game", he said, adding that:

"Freedom of the money means that you have full control of your money, and if you give your control away from the exchange, they can easily lose it. "

Eric Meltzer, partner at INBlockchain Capital, took a similar view on customer risk at a panel on new crypto trends. Regarding investment in today's crypto market, Meltzer said that he thinks it's important to let investors learn the lessons of the market at the same time. lasts: