{"id":9497,"date":"2025-03-09T07:16:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T06:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsj-crypto.com\/?p=9497"},"modified":"2025-03-09T07:16:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T06:16:24","slug":"nick-szabo-set-to-headline-as-keynote-speaker-at-ethereums-devcon1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsj-crypto.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/nick-szabo-set-to-headline-as-keynote-speaker-at-ethereums-devcon1\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Szabo Set to Headline as Keynote Speaker at Ethereum&#8217;s DEVCON1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"chakra-text css-gi02ar\"><span class=\"s1\">London, United Kingdom, October 22nd &#8211; The Ethereum Foundation is delighted to declare the Keynote Speaker for Ethereum\u2019s yearly conference <!-- --><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"chakra-link css-ug8vf0\" href=\"https:\/\/devcon.ethereum.org\/\">D\u039eVCON1<!-- --><\/a>, Nick Szabo. Nick\u2019s keynote will center around the background of blockchain, smart contracts, and assets within the blockchain.<!-- --><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"chakra-text css-gi02ar\"><span class=\"s1\">Nick is a computer scientist, legal expert, and cryptologist recognized for his studies on digital agreements and virtual currency. The term and idea of \u201csmart contracts\u201d were conceived by Szabo with the purpose of integrating contract law into programming protocols online.<!-- --><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"chakra-text css-gi02ar\"><span class=\"s1\">Recently, Szabo distinguished the implementation of smart contracts on Ethereum compared to the Bitcoin blockchain, \u201cIf you desire to have a versatile general-purpose programming setting like programmers have been accustomed to since at least the 1950s, then you\u2019re going to wish to utilize Ethereum because it possesses a Turing complete language and expansive state. <!-- --><em class=\"chakra-text css-0\">I often liken this to a pocket calculator [Bitcoin] versus, say, a general-purpose computer [Ethereum].<!-- --><\/em>\u201d<!-- --><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"chakra-text css-gi02ar\"><span class=\"s1\">Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin remarked, \u201cwe are excited to welcome Nick to <!-- --><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"chakra-link css-ug8vf0\" href=\"https:\/\/devcon.ethereum.org\/\">D\u039eVCON1<!-- --><\/a>. His groundbreaking contributions to smart contracts and the advancement of blockchain technology will provide an incredibly valuable viewpoint to the conference\u201d.<!-- --><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"chakra-text css-gi02ar\"><span class=\"s1\">D\u039eVCON1 is scheduled to take place from November 9th-13th at Gibson Hall in London, UK. It will showcase five days of technical presentations and events focusing on research and core protocols, decentralized application (dApp) development, as well as industry and societal impacts.<!-- --><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"chakra-text css-gi02ar\"><span class=\"s1\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"chakra-link css-ug8vf0\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ethereum.org\">Ethereum<!-- --><\/a> is a decentralized blockchain protocol that executes smart contracts: applications that operate precisely as coded without any likelihood of downtime, censorship, fraud, or interference by third parties.<!-- --><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"chakra-text css-gi02ar\"><span class=\"s1\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"chakra-link css-ug8vf0\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ethereum.org\">Ethereum<!-- --><\/a> represents how the Internet was meant to function.\u00a0<!-- --><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"chakra-text css-gi02ar\"><span class=\"s1\">###<!-- --><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ethereum.org\/en\/2015\/10\/22\/nick-szabo-confirmed-as-keynote-speaker-of-ethereums-devcon1\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, United Kingdom, October 22nd &#8211; The Ethereum Foundation is delighted to declare the Keynote Speaker for Ethereum\u2019s yearly conference D\u039eVCON1, Nick Szabo. Nick\u2019s keynote will center around the background of blockchain, smart contracts, and assets within the blockchain. Nick is a computer scientist, legal expert, and cryptologist recognized for his studies on digital agreements<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1631],"class_list":["post-9497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ethereum","tag-return-a-list-of-comma-separated-tags-from-this-title-nick-szabo-confirmed-as-keynote-speaker-of-ethereums-devcon1"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nick Szabo Set to Headline as Keynote Speaker at Ethereum&#039;s DEVCON1 - WSJ-Crypto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wsj-crypto.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/nick-szabo-set-to-headline-as-keynote-speaker-at-ethereums-devcon1\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"it_IT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nick Szabo Set to Headline as Keynote Speaker at Ethereum&#039;s DEVCON1 - WSJ-Crypto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"London, United Kingdom, October 22nd &#8211; The Ethereum Foundation is delighted to declare the Keynote Speaker for Ethereum\u2019s yearly conference D\u039eVCON1, Nick Szabo. 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