ETHDenver registration 2 DAYS LEFT + Decentralized Summit- TODAY!

Happy Tuesday!

We had a lot of fun in this month's conferences along with our BEN community. We are excited to share that we had over 40 BEN students attend the North American Bitcoin Conference this year, including high school student Richard Smithies!

We want to see more students take advantage of these events and activities. Students, make sure you're signed up at blockchainedu.org/join to join our slack channel to take advantage of all opportunities!

Updates

Calling all #BUIDLERS! 2 days left to sign up for ETHDenver!!!

We are partnering with ETHDenver, a hackathon of education, networking, mentorship, and employment opportunities with an estimated 3,000 in attendance! All accepted students attending ETHDenver will get 24-hour access to the event, meals, snacks, beverages and a resting area with air mattresses and bean bag chairs. There are 2 days left to sign up.
Final round closes 1/31.

🌐 Where: Denver, Colorado
📆 When: February 15 - 17
💻 Website: ethdenver.com
📌 Tips: Plan your travel for Feb 11 - Feb 17 to stay for #BUIDL Week Colorado.
💸 Travel Scholarships: There are a limited amount of student travel scholarships available. Email [email protected] with a request after being accepted.

BEN is participating in an entirely ONLINE Decentralized Summit!

The Decentralized Summit 1 is a two-day Online Summit for blockchain professionals and believers in a decentralized future who want to improve their capability to #buidl and learn from their peers and thought leaders in the ecosystem.Tune in for talks about blockchain community management, software development, growth marketing, and industry insights

🌐 Where: Online
📆 When: TODAY January 29-30th. Starting at 10 am
💻 Website: https://decentralizedsummit.com/

BEN is mentioned in Best Selling Author Alison McCauley's new book "Unblocked"

Unblocked takes you past the hype and insider technobabble to show you what blockchains are, why they matter and how they're going to change your business. Unblocked explains:

• Why ignoring this technology now exposes you to competitive disruption

• What innovation is coming in this next era—no technical background required

• Why blockchains could be a new growth strategy for some businesses

• How to guide your business to respond to the coming shift

Coming Up

2019 HBS Blockchain & Crypto Conference
The HBS Blockchain and Crypto Club is bringing thought leaders, founders, investors, and other prominent figures in blockchain and crypto to discuss the current state of the industry. Through the lens of mainstream adoption, we will explore topics such as trends for VC investing in blockchain, building out the financial infrastructure stack, analysis of the current dApp and web3 ecosystem, tech crypto vs money crypto debate, and more.

🌐 Where: Harvard University, Allston MA
📆️ When: February 23
💻 Website: https://blockchain-hbsclub.com/blockchain-conference/
🎟️ Tickets: $40

MIT Bitcoin Expo 2019

At the 2019 Bitcoin Expo, we will consider the challenges that face us today and how we can augment the development of this still-maturing ecosystem. We invite you to join us to have a conversation with stakeholders and developers with boots on the ground. We will talk about scalability, user adoption, UX challenges, regulatory concerns, token economics, vulnerabilities, and some of the most promising solutions currently under development.

🌐 Where: MIT, Boston MA
📆️ When: Mar 9 - Mar 10
💻 Website: http://mitbitcoinexpo.org/
🎟️ Tickets: FREE

Spotlights

Sathvik Birudavolu (UMass Amherst) just signed an offer from Trust Wallet. Congrats Sathvik!

Caroline Glavind (Western University) writes about a use case for blockchain in supply chain management: Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin: Eliminating Counterfeit Goods.

Lorenzo Giustozzi (BEN Italy) was appointed to a group of blockchain experts to work with Italy's Ministero Dello Sviluppo Economico representing BEN!

 Arpit Agarwal (BEN India) wrote an article summarizing his ETHSingapore project, ZkDai — Private DAI transactions on Ethereum using Zk-SNARKs.

Alberto Jauregui (University of Florida) was personally promised by CEO of Coinmine a free Coinmine miner if he got 1000 retweets! Alberto wants to use the miner to start a mining hardware review channel. Let's spread some holiday cheer and help him out! Click here to retweet!