Food at Cornell Bitcoin Meetings & Events! & Calendar Updates
Hi All,
Happy Monday! Exciting news! We will now be having dinner at at all of our weekly meetings (Thank you Professor Kreps & The Cornell Brooks Tech Policy Institute!).
With this in mind, it would be super helpful if you could please indicate that you are coming by responding to the weekly poll by Tuesday night, which I will put in Slack. (Join Slack here)
Here is a form for you to indicate your meal preference. Depending on how many people come (keeping budget in mind!) and because I have class (& I can't drive haha), our options will be more limited with pizza likely being a regular. There is a local pizza shopped owned by a man from El Salvador, which, with some luck, maybe we can even buy our pizza this year with bitcoin!
Fun Fact: May 22, 2010 is "Bitcoin Pizza Day." A programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz made history by spending 10,000 bitcoin to have two large Papa John's pizzas delivered to his door. (~$672,240,000 today)
Meeting Calendar:
10/22: Laurier Bitcoin Club Meeting w/ Blockstream (Founded by Adam Back, the only living person cited in the Bitcoin white paper)
10/23: Cornell Bitcoin Club Meeting - Led by Brian Liu
11/06: Cornell Bitcoin Club Meeting - Led by Maggie Gao
11/13: Cornell Bitcoin Club Meeting - Led by Ella Hough on Topic of Nostr
11/20: Cornell Bitcoin Club Meeting - GUEST SPEAKER: Drew Armstrong
11/27: NO Cornell Bitcoin Club Meeting; Thanksgiving break!
12/03: Cornell Bitcoin Club Meeting - GUEST SPEAKER: Jeff Booth
All External Links to Join Virtual Meetings Will Be On Shared Google Calendar (Linked Below)
Event Calendar:
10/30: Cornell Bitcoin Club White Paper Party! Celebrate the day Bitcoin was announced to the world. We will have lots of food, games to earn sats, & a little bit of history of October 31, 2008 (& 1517 )
11/01: Virtual Panel w/ Bitcoin Mining Experts. Hosted by UCLA Bitcoin Bruins Club
11/02: Bitcoin Mining Film Dirty Coin Screening @ The Schwartz Film Forum
11/09: OP_NEXT Conference @ Fidelity Center for Applied Technology (FCAT) in Boston (Free Student Tickets)
TBD: Sal Pineda has been working on how to recruit into Bitcoin jobs
TBD: Best practices on how to buy bitcoin (Not financial advice or recommendation to buy; just if you so choose and want support with how!)
Reminders:
Missed a Meeting?
09/18: Welcome | Intro to CBTC | Lesson: "The Price of Today: Why You Should Care About Bitcoin" - Led by Ella Hough (slides v1, slides v2, & recording)
09/25 GUEST SPEAKER: Nate, Engineer at Voltage (slides & recording)
10/02: Proof of Work Day: Projects Overview & Beginning - Led by Ella Hough (slides & no recording)
10/09: Lesson & Debate Activity on Bitcoin in Emerging Markets - Led by Rafa Baldeon (slides & recording)
Be in touch if there's anything we can do for you. Thank you!
Warmly,
Ella