Decentralizing the World Tour

August 2018 - January 2019

About the Tour

Blockstack hosted a global speaker series featuring thought leaders and luminaries discussing and presenting on key topics related to decentralization, the new internet, dapps, censorship, token economies, and more. The 'Decentralizing the World' tour featured some of the biggest names, projects, and people discussing the most important ideas, problems, and opportunities in our rapidly changing world.

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September 13th, 2018

New York

Why Decentralization? The NYC city stop included presentations, discussions, and remarks from Muneeb Ali, Blockstack Co-founder, Justin Hunter, Graphite Founder, Avthar Sewrathan, Richard Adjei and Felix Madutsa, Afari Founders, Megha Rajagopalan, BuzzFeed, Alex Gladstein, Human Rights Foundation, and more. Net profits will benefit Girls Who Code.

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October 1st, 2018

London

The London tour stop covered Crypto Economics as it relates to active participation in networks, investments, and protocols as well as Blockstack updates and a demo from Misthos. Speakers included Muneeb Ali, Blockstack Co-founder, Larry Salibra, Blockstack Engineering Partner, Richard Muirhead, Fabric Ventures Founder & Partner, David Fauchier, Cambrial Capital Founder and Justin Carter, Misthos Founder, and more. Net profits will benefit Girls Who Code.

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January 10, 2019

Hong Kong

Blockstack held an event on January 10, 2019 at the Hong Kong Exchange. The event featured thought leaders in the crypto world and supporters of decentralization. Speakers took on important topics with both global and local importance such as Decentralized Governance, Digital Rights, and Building with Blockstack. Net profits will benefit Women Who Code - Hong Kong.

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Alex Gladstein, Farida Nabourema, Muneeb Ali and Megha Rajagopalan at the September 13, 2018 NYC event

Farida Nabourema at the September 13, 2018 NYC event

Muneeb Ali at the September 13, 2018 NYC event

Megha Rajagopalan at the September 13, 2018 NYC event

Justin Hunter at the September 13, 2018 NYC event

Richard Muirhead and Vinay Gupta at the London October 1, 2018 event

Muneeb Ali at the January 10, 2019 Hong Kong event

William Mougayar at the January 10, 2019 Hong Kong event

Katherine Wu at the January 10, 2019 Hong Kong event

January 10, 2019 Hong Kong event afternoon break

Pindar Wong at the January 10, 2019 Hong Kong event

Larry Salibra at the January 10, 2019 Hong Kong event

Jude Nelson at the January 10, 2019 Hong Kong event

Nick Grossman at the January 10, 2019 Hong Kong event

George Gilder at the January 10, 2019 Hong Kong event

Coffee break at the January 10, 2019 Hong Kong event

VC's Coming Into Crypto Panel with Carman Chan, Nick Grossman, Bonnie Cheung, Kenneth Ballenegger and Jason Choi

Afternoon break at the January 10, 2019 Hong Kong event

Post event networking at the January 10, 2019 Hong Kong event

Networking at the January 10, 2019 Hong Kong event

Speakers

Thank you to fantastic speakers that joined the tour in cities all over the world.

Muneeb Ali
Co-founder, Blockstack
Farida Nabourema
Togolese writer, blogger, Co-founder, Faure Must Go & Executive Director, Togolese Civil League
Megha Rajagopalan
China Bureau Chief & Asia Correspondent, BuzzFeedNews
Alex Gladstein
Chief Strategy Officer, Human Rights Foundation
Justin Hunter
Founder, Graphite
Michael Kaisers
Distributed Systems PhD, CWI Amsterdam
Avthar Sewrathan
Co-founder, Afari
Richard Adjei
Co-founder, Afari
Felix Madutsa
Co-founder, Afari
Richard Muirhead
Founder and Partner, Fabric VC
Vinay Gupta
CEO, Mattereum
Larry Salibra
Engineering Partner, Blockstack
David Fauchier
Founder, Cambrial Capital
Justin Carter
Founder, Misthos
Jude Nelson
Engineering Partner, Blockstack
Katherine Wu
Business Development and Community Management, Messari
William Mougayar
Blockchain Theorist, Investor & Author, The Business Blockchain
Daniel Jeffries
Author, Futurist & Thinker, Hackernoon
Pindar Wong
Chairman, VeriFi (Hong Kong) Limited
George Gilder
Information Theorist, Book: "Life After Google"
Kenneth Ballenegger
General Partner, Oyster Ventures
Carman Chan
Founder and Managing Director, Click Ventures
Jason Choi
Associate, Spartan Capital
Bonnie Cheung
Venture Partner, 500 Startups
Nick Grossman
GM for Special Projects, USV
Kelvin Koh
Partner, Spartan Capital
Edith Yeung
Partner, 500 Startups
+ more
Thanks to everyone who shared their time with the community.

What they discussed:

Peeling the layers of Decentralized Governance
From Agile to Immutable: Balancing Innovation and Trust in Decentralized Systems
Will Life After Google be Blockstack?
The Stacks Blockchain
Why global trade will inevitably move to the blockchain
Decentralizing your cash flow
2019 and Beyond: Crypto Outlook
Ensuring Internet Symmetry: Topology Over Geography
The new internet/web 3.0, dapps, censorship, token economies, and more.
Why building on Blockstack is more scalable than other dapp platforms.