<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The audio on this starts out a little quiet, but it soon gets louder. There are also fairly accurate auto-captions. The Internet Society now has a <a href="https://www.isoc-bsig.org/">Blockchain Special Interest Group</a>, open to all. </div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></div><br><u></u>
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joly posted: "On Thursday September 14 2017 the Brooklyn Futurist Meetup presented State of Blockchain 2017: Smartnetworks & the Blockchain Economy at Brooklyn Law School. Speaker Melanie Swann, author of Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy, and founder of the " </span>
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<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em"><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491" target="_blank"><img border="0" class="m_4958129473127398719size-full" src="https://covers.oreillystatic.com/images/0636920037040/cat.gif" alt="Book: Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy" style="max-width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:12px;clear:both;float:right;margin-left:1em;padding:4px;background-color:white;border:1px solid #ccc"></a>On <strong>Thursday September 14 2017</strong> the <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://www.meetup.com/BLKNY30/" target="_blank">Brooklyn Futurist Meetup</a></strong> presented <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://www.meetup.com/BLKNY30/events/240580804/" target="_blank"><b>State of Blockchain 2017: Smartnetworks & the Blockchain Economy</b></a> at Brooklyn Law School. Speaker <strong>Melanie Swann</strong>, author of <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920037040.do" target="_blank">Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy</a></strong>, and founder of the <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://www.blockchainstudies.org" target="_blank">Institute for Blockchain Studies</a></strong>, gave a comprehensive overview of this important and innovative protocol. Video is below.</p>
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<strong>Book on Amazon</strong>: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1491920491" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.<wbr>com/dp/1491920491</a><br>
<strong>Twitter</strong>: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%40bkfuturist%20%2B%20blockchain&src=typd" target="_blank">@bkfuturist + #blockchain</a></p></div>
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