Jack Peterson will present on Bitcoin 2.0 and Augur.net (http://www.augur.net/), a decentralized prediction market on Ethereum. He will also give us some background on other Bitcoin 2.0 tech, Bitshares, Nxt, Ripple, etc.



Bonus: Augur has offered to provide a limited amount of free pizza for event.



This event is our 2nd collaboration with the Georgia Tech Bitcoin club (https://www.facebook.com/gtbitcoin).



More about our speaker:



Dr Jack Peterson is a physicist and entrepreneur who has successfully led several web and scientific software development projects. He developed deep interests in distributed networks and cryptocurrencies while finishing his PhD at UCSF. Jack is also a full-stack web developer (http://tinybike.com/), and has (https://github.com/tinybike/Decimals.jl) developed (https://github.com/tinybike/JointMoments.jl) multiple (https://github.com/tinybike/FiniteStateMachine.jl) packages (https://github.com/JuliaStats/StatsBase.jl) for the Julia programming language. He has published several peer-reviewed (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp500611f) articles (http://www.pnas.org/content/107/37/16023) on networks (http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01282) and information theory (http://www.pnas.org/content/110/51/20380.abstract). Linkedin (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jack-peterson/58/b02/420/en)and Twitter (https://twitter.com/tensorjack)



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