FREE TICKETS to Bitcoin Miami & Blockchain Connect in January

Happy Holidays!

BEN is getting ready for the new year with lots of initiatives, resources, and programs so that YOU can LEARN, GROW, TRAVEL, & BUILD as #GenerationBlockchain!

BEN student members have access to resources and programs, such as free lessons, activities, and tickets/trips to events around the world. Make sure you've signed up at blockchainedu.org/join to take advantage of them!

-BEN

Updates

BEN will be kicking off 2019 with two conference partnerships for January: The North American Bitcoin Conference and Blockchain Connect Academic. Check back on blockchainedu.org/events for descriptions and ticket links to our 2019 partner conferences.

NORTH AMERICAN BITCOIN CONFERENCE💸
Where: Miami, Florida
When: Jan 16-18th
BEN Student Ticket Price: Free for 3hrs volunteering
Tips: Plan your travel for Jan 16th - Jan 22nd to stay for Miami Blockchain Week.
Conference Website: https://btcmiami.com/ 
About: Keynote invites you to join us at The North American Bitcoin Conference, a part of World Blockchain Forum: Investments & ICOs, taking place in Miami. The success of our 2018 conferences have brought together all the major players in the industry, launched some hugely successful businesses, and proven that the world of ICOs is growing exponentially.

BLOCKCHAIN CONNECT ACADEMIC
Where: San Francisco, California
When: Jan 11th
BEN Student Ticket Price: $5.99
BEN Community Members Price: $29.99
Conference Website: https://www.goblockchainconnect.com/ 
About: Blockchain Connect Conference: Academic 2019 will be the third blockchain connect conference hosted by SV Insight. It will gather the most authoritative blockchain professors around the world, the public chain projects with the most advanced technology, and technical experts, to discuss the most cutting-edge blockchain academic research, problems, and solutions.

Spotlights

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!