On 5th August 2024, David Chaum was invited to speak in what became a 6 hour X space in his capacity as a judge for forthcoming hackathons. The Bitcoin Olympics is a series of online hackathons taking place over a few weeks during the summer of 2024, with multiple networks being involved. Below is David’s…
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David Chaum Spoke at PlasmaCon in Tokyo on July 31st
David spoke along with key figures in the Ethereum ecosystem at this conference at the United Nations University in Tokyo on July 31st. Plasma is a proposed scaling solution for Ethereum first discussed over 6 years ago which made a resurgence after Vitalik Buterin wrote about the future in his recent blog post “Exit games…
Watch David and Mário’s Keynote, Blockchain Expo World, July 2024
The Turkish XX Network community announced back in May that Mário Yaksetig was joining them in person in Istanbul for the Blockchain Expo World conference in Istanbul, with David Chaum making a remote appearance. The event took place over July 4th – 7th and the Turkish XX Network delivered a great event including an after…
Crypto Eri Interviews Mário Yaksetig About Privacy and the XX Network
The popular YouTuber and X influencer Crypto Eri interviews XX Network’s Mário Yaksetig about his involvement in the network and some of the developments he is an instrumental part of. This was released on 23rd April after a series of teaser videos went out: Mário covers extensive detail about the recent CBDC trials with the…
David and Jim Speak to Burak Kesmeci About the XX Network
On Monday 8th April 2024, David Chaum and Jim Dolbear spoke in an X space hosted by Burak Kesmeci and featured YouTube influencer Haluk Tatar among other prominent Turkish figures in the XX community. In the talk, David talked about his beginnings in cryptography and the founding of the XX Network, which he says is…
XX Foundation Releases Q2 2024 Roadmap + Interview with Aaron
On 4th April 2024, the XX Foundation published their latest roadmap detailing some of the events we can expect to see in the coming months. In the build-up to publication, Aaron Welwood (director of the Foundation) joked he had to choose what to keep in or leave out, as there appears to be a lot…
xxDK Multi-Platform Example Apps & Demo From Rick Carback
For the last few months, Rick Carback and his team have spent considerable effort updating and adding to the cMixx Development Kit, known as the xxDK. In March 2024, Rick released a set of example apps that run for iOS, Android, React.js (Web) and a golang command line app. You can find the repository with…
Video: David Chaum at Blockchain Days Conference, March 10th
This was the second of the Blockchain Days conferences, and ran over two days with the first day being in-person sessions and the second being online. The in-person sessions took place at the METU (Middle East Technical University) Culture and Congress Center in Ankara. XX Network was a Gold sponsor at the event. David appeared…
Generation Infinity: Blockchain Association, Government Relations, Web3 Security
This X Space hosted on Thursday 7th March, 2024 by Darren Moore and Ryan Solomon from GenFinity featured Rick Carback of the XX Network alongside the HashPack App, Interlock, XRPL Labs, Brillion and other guests who had a wide ranging discussion. Rick shares his deep knowledge on subjects such as multi-sig wallets, certain cryptographic vulnerabilities,…
Generation Infinity: XX Network Updates
On 22nd February 2024, Generation Infinity (Ryan Solomon and team) hosted an X space to update their listeners on various projects and for the first hour, XX Network held the floor, speaking about their latest developments. Present on the XX Network team were Rick Carback, Mário Yaksetig, Bernado Cardoso, Baltasar Aroso and Aaron Welwood. Old…