Workshop on Polkadot's Hybrid Blockchain Consensus (at MIT Bitcoin Expo)

DEEP DIVE SESSION - Polkadot's Hybrid Blockchain Consensus with Bill Laboon
About this Event

DEEP DIVE SESSION - Polkadot's Hybrid Blockchain Consensus

Join Web 3 Foundation's Bill Laboon for a deep dive workshop into how the BABE and GRANDPA protocols work, how they are used in Polkadot to produce and finalize blocks, and how together they can provide an extremely high-uptime, yet finalizable, production of a canonical history.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Bill Laboon is the Technical Education Lead for the Web3 Foundation in Zug, Switzerland, where he helps people understand blockchain technology. He is also a Lecturer (currently on a leave of absence) in the Computer Science Department of the University of Pittsburgh, after fifteen years in the software industry. He is a frequent speaker at conferences on a variety of topics, including blockchain technology, improving software quality, and the ethics of software development. He is the author of two books: A Friendly Introduction to Software Testing, an undergraduate textbook; and Strength in Numbers, a near-future novel set in a world in which cryptocurrency has entirely eliminated traditional money.

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