It has been a little while since I posted the events, panels and presentations I have been involved with.  Below is some of the public activity over the past 5-6 months.

Interviews with direct quotes:

• Blockchain expert Tim Swanson talks about R3 partnership of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, UBS, Barclays et al from International Business Times
• Blockchain Initiative 22-Strong As Banking World Shows Intent from Payments Compliance
• A Very Public Conflict Over Private Blockchains from Payments Source
• Final BitLicense Proves Divisive Milestone in US Bitcoin Regulation from CoinDesk
• Dark Web Markets ‘Processed More Bitcoin than BitPay in 2014’ from CoinDesk
• Former Mt. Gox CEO: Current Bitcoin exchanges are a ‘disaster waiting to happen’ from Fusion
• Permissioned Ledgers And The Case For Blockchains Without Bitcoin from Epicenter Bitcoin
• Banks Can Cherry-Pick the Best Bits from Bitcoin from American Banker
• A Startup’s Radical Bet on Bitcoin Mining Hinges on Paradigm Shift — Horizons from The Wall Street Journal

Indirect quotes:

• Citi, HSBC Partner With R3CEV As Blockchain Project Adds 13 Banks from CoinDesk
• Blockchains Without Coins Stir Tensions in Bitcoin Community from The Wall Street Journal
• Primedice Shifts Focus Following US and Australia Ban from CoinDesk
• Bitcoin Outlook Remains Hazy After 2014 Meltdown from NerdWallet
• How blockchain technology could decentralize not just currency, but everything from VentureBeat

Academic citations:

• Great Chain of Numbers was cited in Beyond Cryptocurrencies – A Taxonomy of Decentralized Consensus Systems by Florian Glaser and Luis Bezzenberger
• Consensus-as-a-service was cited in Enigma: Decentralized Computation Platform with Guaranteed Privacy by Guy Zyskind, Oz Nathan, Alex Pentland

Presentations, panels and events:

• Interview and question/answer session with the Institute for the Future – March 13, 2015
  • IFTF research focusing on usages of the technology and emerging challenges
• Stanford Blockchain Workshop – March 21, 2015
  • Working Group: “Distributed Oversight: Custodians and Intermediaries“
• Stanford Blockchain Workshop (writeup) – March 23, 2015
  • Panel: “Technical Aspects of Blockchain-based applications”
  • Panel: “Exploring alternative currencies”
• Interview and question/answer session with Gravity-Europe and BMW – April 17, 2015
  • Gravity-Europe-led research session on distributed ledger technology
• Interview and question/answer session with Seedcoin – April 24, 2015
  • Research session with financial institutions related to distributed ledger technology and startup landscape
• Sim Kee Boon Institute roundtable (Singapore) – May 5, 2015
  • Presentation: “The Future of Fintech: Crystal balls and tasseography“
• Sim Kee Boon Institute conference “Digital banking, financial inclusion and impact investing” (Singapore) – May 6, 2015
  • Panel: Exploring the technology in FinTech for Digital Banking
• DBS / Startup Bootcamp hackathon (Singapore) – May 8, 2015
• R3CEV roundtable (NYC) – May 13, 2015
  • Panel: Discussion of Consensus-as-a-service (pdf)
• Blockchain University demo day panel (judge) – May 18, 2015
• Breaking Banks: “Bitcoin: Hope or Hype?” – May 23, 2015
• Orange Telecom conference “Putting the Blockchain to Work” – June 10, 2015 (recap)
  • Panel: New & Innovative Uses of the Blockchain
• Blockchain University (at PwC San Francisco) – June 27, 2015
  • Q & A on Landscape / Panel
• BNY Mellon dinner – July 8, 2015
  • Fintech discussion: “Learning from the past to build an improved future of fintech“
• BNY Mellon Silicon Valley Innovation Center – July 9, 2015
  • Panel: How Will Cryptocurrency Shake the World?
• Blockchain University (in Bangalore and Mysore India) – July 20 through July 23, 2015
  • Presentations: Landscape; Vision; Smart Contracts
• American Banker conference “Digital Currencies + the Blockchain” – July 28, 2015
  • Panel (writeup): “Can the Blockchain Really be Separated from Bitcoin”
• CoinDesk conference “Consensus” – September 10, 2015
  • Panel (writeup): “Trust, Permissions, Openness: The Future of Innovation on the Blockchain”
• Informational session for Axel Springer – October 1, 2015
  • Executive roundtable covering “Identity Management and Digital Currency”
• State Street Innovation Symposium – October 15, 2015
  • Panel: “Blockchain and the Distributed Ledger Landscape”
• Risk Magazine conference Risk USA – October 21, 2015
  • Panel: “Blockchain on Wall Street – risks and opportunities”