*Initial Monero Austria Meetup*



in cooperation with Dogecoin austria (https://www.meetup.com/Dogecoin-Austria-Meetup/) and the Ethereum Vienna (https://www.meetup.com/Ethereum-Vienna/events/239268670/) meetups.



We will kick-off the Monero Austria Meetup Group by looking at useful cryptography: ring signatures, which form the backbone of Monero.



Featuring:



• Justin Ehrenhofer: Privacy with Monero (https://getmonero.org/)



Justin will talk about how Monero (https://getmonero.org/) achieves privacy and its roadmap.



Justin has been active in the Monero community for the past two years. Although he is not a developer for the project, he has contributed heavily on StackExchange and with the Monero mining community. He is a president of the University of Minnesota's Cryptocurrency Club, and he has spoken about Monero at several other meetups. Justin is studying finance and management information systems.



* Ralph Pichler: ENS (Ethereum Name Service) and its upcoming (re)launch on the mainnet



ENS (http://ens.readthedocs.io/) is a decentralised name service built on top of Ethereum. Following a failed launch of the .eth registrar a few weeks ago, it is now ready for relaunch on the main net.



* Matthias Tarasiewicz: Cryptocurrencies as distributed community experiments - the origins of Dogecoin



In a paper from 2014 (https://www.academia.edu/9622400/Cryptocurrencies_as_Distributed_Community_Experiments) (as chapter of the 'Handbook for digital currency') the iterative development of various 'altcoins' have been discussed as 'distributed community experiments (https://www.academia.edu/9622400/Cryptocurrencies_as_Distributed_Community_Experiments)'. Altcoins introduced new solutions to problems Bitcoin was facing, while also tackling social and other evolving problems that emerged throughout the various phases of adaptation and collective learning processes. These alternative coins represented hypotheses by the respective creators until they could show a significant user-base and ultimately have been accepted in online cryptocurrency exchanges. An interesting example is the cryptocurrency Dogecoin (http://dogecoin.com/), since significant decisions (such as inflation) have been introduced by the community. Besides the interesting governance and resistance of the community, the genealogy of Dogecoin can be read as a history of experiments: Multicoin, GeistGeld, Tenebrix have been all predecessors of Litecoin, which ultimately led to the Shibe as we know it today.



This is a joint event with the Dogecoin austria meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Dogecoin-Austria-Meetup/) and the recently created Monero Austria (https://www.meetup.com/Monero-Austria/) meetup group and is presented at the RIAT - Research Institute for Arts and Technology (http://riat.ac.at).