So I am delighted to announce that I will be speaking at ETC Summit in Seoul this September.

For anybody who isn’t familiar with my personal history, I started following Ethereum in February 2014, meeting Vitalik for the first time in July of that year. I became an active part of the Ethereum community in 2015, initially working on cross builds for Linux mobile and wearables.

I joined the Ethereum Foundation in February 2016 to work on cpp-ethereum and Solidity, so I was “on the inside” at the time of the DAO Fork. I had a front-row seat for all of the drama that summer:

Later that year I presented on Ethereum for Resource Constrained Devices at DEVCON2 in Shanghai. Shortly after that I joined ConsenSys to help create the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), where I was the Vice-Chair of the Technical Steering Committee.

So why am I attending ETC Summit? Because the tribalism we see throughout blockchain as a whole is self-defeating nonsense and we need to knock it on the head. As I said there in 2016, we all have an awful lot more in common than we have differences, and we need to start working together on common goals if we want blockchain to succeed. We are brothers-and-sisters in crypto. If you must have an enemy, look at the status quo, not at each other!

Who benefits from the current divide-and-conquer? Not us, that is for sure.

I had a long tweet-storm on this topic in January which I turned into A Call for an End to Tribalism in Ethereum blog post, which was then the basis for my keynote talk at the Ethereum Community Conference in Paris this March:

So, I have been working on multiple peace-missions to try to bring the various factions of the Ethereum community together, and across the whole of blockchain for months on end now, and it is time for us to look to the future, which has many chains.

We need interchain technology. We need sidechains. We need state channels. We need off-chain. We need permissioned chains. We need permissionless chains. We need everything. There is no one-size-fits-all-solution.

Let’s work together and build the decentralized future which we all want to see.

Great to meet @darcydangerreno today at the @FinhavenHQ offices. Darcy is the Program Manager for @etcdev. Great to build some more bridges between the various tribes! I have always been supportive of $ETC:https://t.co/xG075GNp6j#ethereum #ethereumclassic #community pic.twitter.com/1qlhwchLCa — Bob 'No ETH giveaways' Summerwill 🇨🇦 (@BobSummerwill) March 16, 2018

Since November I have engaged in some form with: – BTC

– BCH

– Lightning

– Rootstock

– ETH

– ETC

– NEO

– EOS

– Tezos

– Dogecoin

– Fabric

– Corda

– Hyperledger

– EEA

– IETF/IRTF

– W3C We are all in this together.#blockchain #community pic.twitter.com/XQhobpI0vu — Bob 'No ETH giveaways' Summerwill 🇨🇦 (@BobSummerwill) April 15, 2018

The spawning of Ethereum Classic was the most marvellous thing. I did not actively participate in $ETC because I did not recognize my tribe there, but their right to secede and the fact they did was a beautiful thing. We learnt there was no need to fear hard-forks. — Bob 'No ETH giveaways' Summerwill 🇨🇦 (@BobSummerwill) May 19, 2018

Indeed! The right to secession is hugely important. Happy birthday, @eth_classic. https://t.co/OuIHevyCfQ — Bob 'No ETH giveaways' Summerwill 🇨🇦 (@BobSummerwill) July 21, 2017

I will be, on July 20th, and I am sure that @avsa, @virgilgr and many other @ethereum people will be too. Just like last year:https://t.co/xG075GNp6j Always remember that @VitalikButerin did nothing to hinder ETC's birth and went out of his way not to enforce TM, etc. https://t.co/w5ijVWWeOw — Bob 'No ETH giveaways' Summerwill 🇨🇦 (@BobSummerwill) June 17, 2018

I would love to see @etcdev, IOHK and other ETC developers at DEVCON4 in Prague in October – expanding on @pyskell's talk at EDCON. CC @virgilgr is attending ETC Summit and @aalexis1234 and I hope to be there too. Please do come to Prague too, ETC community! ❤️🕊️🌎 — Bob 'No ETH giveaways' Summerwill 🇨🇦 (@BobSummerwill) June 23, 2018

That would also allow more collaboration between Ethereum and Ethereum Classic communities. As @ParityTech have shown from the start, ETH vs ETC is just a "mode". @InputOutputHK are adding ETH support to Mantis. POW vs POA vs POS is also just a mode. We need to get modular. — Bob 'No ETH giveaways' Summerwill 🇨🇦 (@BobSummerwill) July 2, 2018