{"id":8208,"date":"2017-03-21T14:22:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T03:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/?p=8208"},"modified":"2017-06-21T18:49:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T09:19:41","slug":"join-the-flinders-blockchain-alliance-and-attend-its-first-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/2017\/03\/21\/join-the-flinders-blockchain-alliance-and-attend-its-first-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Join the Flinders Blockchain Alliance &#8211; and attend its first symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flinders Blockchain Alliance, which includes strategic and legal analysts, practitioners and academics, will host a Blockchain Symposium at Flinders in May 2017 as a precursor to its upcoming Blockchain Strategic Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology enabling trustless and secure transactions.<\/p>\n<p>It is the platform that underlies cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, enables\u00a0the operation of smart contracts, and has\u00a0the potential to cause major\u00a0disruption to fintech, legaltech and defencetech industries.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Flinders Blockchain Alliance spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/consensys.net\/team\/\">Joseph Lubin<\/a>, CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/consensys.net\/about\/\">Consensys<\/a> and co-founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ethereum.org\/\">Ethereum Project<\/a> when he visited Adelaide on Friday 3 March 2017 for the Adelaide Blockchain Summit.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in being involved in the Flinders Blockchain Alliance or in attending the Blockchain Symposium in May, please contact Flinders Blockchain Alliance co-conveners Tania Leiman <a href=\"mailto:tania.leiman@flinders.edu.au\">tania.leiman@flinders.edu.au<\/a> (Law School) or Maryanne Kelton <a href=\"mailto:maryanne.kelton@flinders.edu.au\">maryanne.kelton@flinders.edu.au<\/a> (School of International Relations).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flinders Blockchain Alliance, which includes strategic and legal analysts, practitioners and academics, will host a Blockchain Symposium at Flinders in May 2017 as a precursor to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}