Ethereum Foundation DevCon 6 - Opportunity & Global Impact Track, 13 Oct 2022

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From YouTube: Five Devcons in Five Minutes by Thomas Barker | Devcon Bogotá

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A humorous, yet informative, whistle-stop tour of our conference, with focus on the changing demographics and social themes of our favourite week of the year!

Speaker(s): Thomas Barker
Track: Opportunity & Global Impact
Keywords: Devcon,Meta,Modern History

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Devcon 6 was held in Bogotá, Colombia on Oct 11 - 14, 2022.
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Well, I hope you're ready for this talk um I'm, certainly not. This is usually. This is usually a speech that I give half drunk in a bar somewhere to a potential Consulting client um I'm, hoping it'll work here as well, so five day cons in five minutes.

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Why am I qualified to give this talk? I'm not very prominent I have to accomplished any great thing, but I have been to almost every Devcon, except the one that was in Gavin Wood's living room. So you can see here proof of t-shirts.

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um I did think the obvious thing of just like stripping through them on stage that idea did not survive beta testing you. You wouldn't appreciate that.

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So, um as with everything in the short story, I'm going to impose a narrative arc on what I'm doing so, this is as much perception my perceptions in reality, but I would see that they've gone softly. Going like this nerds met Bitcoin that was the very beginning. Within a grown-up technology, very respectable. We were rich and fabulous as anyone remember, 2017.

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It's not a point of Honor, but it was fun followed by cry and build. I would describe that stage as but it's still a time when a lot of progress was made, and then people discovering Society.

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So uh Devcon one was really small. It was basically the size of this room except reasonably full. um It had one line for coffee. That was the only catering that we had um Casper proof of stake was first mooted here.

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um A lot of stuff was said about the benefits of smart contracts and they had a sort of nice academic feel um the Dow was proposed there I think in the side. Events um and ethereum was denial of service attacks.

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um You'll notice a theme on there and here is an example slide. You can see. It was a very, very nice Hall Dev Contour is my favorite Devcon, um because I seemed artificially cool, because Shanghai is a confusing and artificial and scary environment and I'd already been there five or six times before so I looked like I knew what I was doing.

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um This is when it really became respectable. The IBM was there, people had stalls, people from Chinese local government showed up. It was great um for very obvious reasons. um Safety and Security were big things. Formal methods came in, um it was still very much bring your own nightlife people just hung around the hotel or said they were going to certain bars. Vitalik was in I think the sheep's head Pub it translated to quite often- um and it was it was it was very small. You could just go up and talk to Joseph Levine.

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It was it's very communal, um ethereum classic were there. If you want that story, get me a beer later.

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um The Dow was informally postmortem quite a bit um and in accordance with what was then tradition, ethereum was denial of service attacked in the middle of the event, um but it was a lot of fun, as you can see, and the catering was good.

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It's also where uh Pookie boo bars, string, game started, uh which have been a constant feature, I'm, not sure, if he's doing them these years. But if you see people with just bits of string and sticks stunts bits of uh strings I've stuck to themselves, that's because of him.

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Devcon three: if I want to leave you with one image from this talk, um my timer stopped. That's probably good. um If only one image of this talk, um it's me on a pontoon. That's a golf club. There's a party like for two hours, without figuring out who is actually paying for it. Talking about mortgage security as well being brought whiskey, everything was going to be great. There were lots of people used to work in multi-level marketing. The corporates were a bit more quiet. A lot of stuff was focused on the use cases.

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There are also a lot of zero knowledge of side events. um Dexes came along. um It was all pretty good Prague the money went away, but there were lots of developer tools and Prague is great. The beer was excellent.

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um It's probably the first time I felt that we had proper tooling for what we were doing um so. On the whole, there were a lot of paper that is everywhere and blockchain's. Llc was quite an event. There was a huge haul with this girl, as a hologram. I still don't know who she is.

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How am I doing for time? Okay, two minutes, good I'm, okay, um Osaka, I, think Osaka was a point where actually the money hadn't quite come back, but if anything that was a good thing. A lot of people looked at ethereum 2.0, um there's a lot to talk about crypto law, and that was actually something people started to think about. You know: Society law, the general world that was good, ELC 721 came along foreshadowing, the nft Boom, the generalization of crypto kitties, which is previously we need these things.

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You had to refer them as something kitties. I did climate kitties for carbon credits at one point and uh Ava and Libra came along, which was cool and Japan is generally beautiful, um I skived off a lot to go to the castle and stuff like that.

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Devcon Bogota is, of course, whatever we make of it. um Everything is still to be announced. Even the beer, the coffee has been very good. So far, you'll notice I've comment on that a bit, and here are many thanks to people on Twitter who help me with things. um The pictures you see that are um not mine are from them and you can see that in the speaker's notes, which I think will go up online, I'll redact them in a minute- um and here are some really good articles about things that went on there.

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That I would very much suggest if you enjoyed this talk.

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Thank you very much.