Cornell Bitcoin Club Meeting #9 Follow-Up & TEDxCornell Conference April 27th
Hi All,
Hope you've had a nice weekend! The Bitcoin halving happened last night around 8pm. If you're curious, you can view the 840,000 block here. Despite the block subsidy (reward) being 3.125 bitcoin now (instead of 6.25), ViaBTC (who mined the block) received 37.626 bitcoin in fees, so in total (subsidy + fees) they received 40.751 bitcoin (about $2.6 million).
Follow-Up
Info Session for the "Financial Freedom in 21st Century" research study will be on April 29th. Please RSVP here if you're interested. Then, we can set a time.
We will be holding Club speeches & elections on May 2nd. If you are interested in taking on a more active role in the club, please register your interest here. (More details forthcoming).
Job Postings
Foundry (they are the largest Bitcoin mining pool) Link to internships. If you apply, please also let me know.
(I will have many more for you next semester!)
Calendar:
04/25: GUEST SPEAKER/WORKSHOP: D++, Entropy. We will be learning about Bitcoin's UTXO model, which is very relevant now that fees are increasing!
D++ is a bitcoin educator known for her work in pioneering PLEBNET, a community furthering bitcoin's Lightning Network adoption worldwide. In 2022, she developed and led a graduate-level bitcoin engineering course at the University of Texas at Austin. A bitcoiner since 2013, her unique talent is translating complex, technical topics into simple language that anyone can understand.
04/27 from 2 - 4pm: TEDxCornell: One of our members has been leading TEDxCornell for the past 3 years, and they are having their annual conference next weekend! The tickets are $3, and you can sign up here.
05/02: Club Plans for FA '24 & Elections
Reminders:
Please join the Slack workspace
Add the Gcal
Review the Constitution and sign here (if you agree, of course!).
Drop your resume in our resume bank here for Fidelity (so far)
Sign up here if you'd like a free ticket to Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville
Missed a Meeting?
02/08: Welcome | Intro to CBTC | Base Layer Knowledge (slides & recording)
02/15: The Blockchain Trilemma, Timechain, State of Our World & Bitcoin as Money (slides & recording)
02/22: PoW & Overview of Bitcoin x Energy | Part 1 (slides & recording)
02/29: No Meeting: Ella at conference.
03/07: GUEST SPEAKER: Zach Young, Analyst at Trammell Venture Partners (slides & recording)
03/14: GUEST SPEAKER: Manuela Rios, VP of Product at Strike (slides & recording)
03/21: GUEST SPEAKER: Jason Brett, Former U.S. Regulator at the FDIC || Author || Speaker || Regulatory Analyst at Forbes Digital Assets || Government and Regulatory Affairs Consultant, Key Bridge Advisors LLC || Policy Advisor, Bitcoin Policy Institute (slides & recording)
03/25: Finance, Regulation, & The Role of the Market SEC: Commissioner Hester Peirce in conversation with Cornelll SC Johnson College Dean Andrew Karolyi. Watch here
03/28: GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. Bradley Rettler, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wyoming, Author of Resistance Money: A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin, and Fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute (slides & recording)
04/04: No Meeting; Spring Break
04/11: GUEST SPEAKER: Elizabeth Stark, Lightning Labs (slides & recording)
04/18: Halving Party & Plans for Fall '24 (slides)
Be in touch if there's anything I can do for you. Thank you!
Warmly,
Ella