Security questions REQUIRED.

This event will follow the general format of our Socratic Seminars, with a focus on the development of the Ethereum protocol. During the first half of the event we will touch on wide variety of discussion topics listed below. The second half of the event will feature presentations listed below. If you can’t make it to the main event please join us for a social hour at Bubba Gump. Food and drink at the event are sponsored by our friends at Consensys

Presentations:

• John - Deploying a Smart Contract on BlockApps

• Aakil - SafeMarket

Discussion topics:

PRs/Issues
Consensus changes necessary for the homestead release
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/2116

RPC method to inspect the txpool queue
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/2098

Garbage collector
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/2111

EIPS
(Homestead)EIP 2: Hard-fork Changes
https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-2.mediawiki

(Homestead)EIP 7: DELEGATECALL
https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-7.md

(Serenity) EIP 103: Blockchain rent
https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/35

(Serenity) EIP 105: Binary sharding plus contract calling semantics
https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/53

Hashrate
https://etherscan.io/charts/hashrate
https://etherscan.io/stats/miner?range=7

Transparency
https://live.ether.camp/transactions

Privacy on the Blockchain
https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/01/15/privacy-on-the-blockchain/

Understanding Serenity, Part I: Abstraction
https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/12/24/understanding-serenity-part-i-abstraction/

Understanding Serenity, Part 2: Casper
https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/12/28/understanding-serenity-part-2-casper/

Andrew Miller: The Gas Model And Ethereum’s Economics by Epicenter Bitcoin
https://soundcloud.com/epicenterbitcoin/eb-111

State Channels
http://www.jeffcoleman.ca/state-channels/