Understanding Blockchain

Although Bitcoin has become a household term over the past two years, most find the hype around cryptocurrencies challenging to understand. Bitcoin was just the first application of a more fundamental new technology called Blockchain. Blockchain technology creates interesting application domains and incentive systems such as the emerging field of crypto economics. Creating new incentive systems allows society to address some central challenges of collective action. What would happen if we could motivate sustainable behavior with large scale of people to fight climate change? Similarly, what would happen if we could organize science in a way that makes global knowledge sharing faster?

ETH Zurich and other institutions active in these domains, will introduce participants to Blockchain Technology. Speakers will dive deeply into some of the applications and illustrate “real-life” projects. In a panel discussion, we will explore how Blockchain Technology decentralizes society.