Happy Holidays from BEN

Happy Holidays from BEN

Thank you to our community for giving us an unforgettable 2018. Let's reminisce on just a few of the highlights, like...

BEN India students & MIT Bitcoin Club meeting at the MIT Bitcoin Expo!

BEN Italy running #Aperitech meetups all across Italy.

BEN students from the MIT Bitcoin Club, Northeastern Blockchain Club, MIT Sloan Blockchain Club, Tufts Blockchain Club, Boston College Blockchain Club, Boston University FinTech Club, Harvard Law School Blockchain Initiative, Harvard Undergraduate Blockchain Group, Bentley Blockchain Club, Babson Blockchain Club, and Brown Blockchain Club all coming together for the Boston BEN Student Festival!

BEN India's first student meetup!

BEN Vietnam's Tron meetup for students in Ho Chi Minh City!

BEN at San Francisco Blockchain Week!

and lastly, BEN's Dappy Hour with MakerDao in Prague!

...Here's to an even better 2019!

- BEN

Updates

Renew your membership before the year ends! BEN has a new Terms of Service that our members must agree too. Whether you have graduated or not, make sure you fill out our new membership format at blockchainedu.org/members to agree to our new Terms of Service, or you may not be able to log in after January 1, 2019.

Get those tax deductible donations in! If you made an income in 2018 and have to pay taxes, you may be eligible to make a tax deductible donation. Tax deduction donation receipts are available upon request. Donors also get added to our supporters' quarterly newsletter. Go to blockchainedu.org/donate and donate in BTC, ETH, WAN. We also accept fiat.

Spotlights

BEN Italy held the fifth and last #Aperitech romano of 2018 with CodeMotion, talking about smart contracts and the Asian markets.

Erick Pinos, our executive director, was featured on episode 13 of Enigma's new podcast, Decentralize This!

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

Alberto Jauregui from the 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!