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BLOCKCON 2018 has taken Santa Monica by storm with great speakers. Just in time, Blockchain Beach unveiled our new Twitter handle @BlockchainBeach! Join us there for our continued coverage and our tweets from Tuesday's Blockchain Beach Crawl. https://twitter.com/blockchainbeach/status/1050088998171947008 You can see our full coverage from Day 2 and Day 3 or our recap of the fireside chat between AngelList Co-Founder Naval Ravikant and author Nassim Nicholas Taleb using these links. Ralph Merkle, inventor of public key cryptography and Merkle Trees, talked with other panelists about his current pursuit to extend the human lifetime: https://twitter.com/blockchainbeach/status/1050090467801542661 Later, Mark Jeffrey, CEO & Co-Founder of Guardian Circle, explained a concept about Blockchain success that Blockchain Beach agrees with: https://twitter.com/blockchainbeach/status/1050095064918020096 After lunch, the crowd heard from David Moss, CEO of StrongBlock and formerly Block.one (EOS). Moss gave a reasonable timeline for Blockchain adoption: https://twitter.com/blockchainbeach/status/1050127286823837696 Moss then gave an explanation of what "governance" means to him: https://twitter.com/blockchainbeach/status/1050128243972497408 Finally, Moss revealed the new executive team for StrongBlock, made up of former Block.one executives: https://twitter.com/blockchainbeach/status/1050128597250240512 A major concept in Crypto is that incentives don't have to be in fiat currency. For Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, the incentive he wants to promote is happiness: https://twitter.com/blockchainbeach/status/1050138689848795136 Late in the afternoon, we heard from Consensys Executive Director Vanessa Grellet about the luxury market: https://twitter.com/blockchainbeach/status/1050151500020731904 She said that the luxury market has been growing: https://twitter.com/blockchainbeach/status/1050152026162642944 And that Blockchain and the tokenization of art and other assets will open them up as an asset class open to more investors: https://twitter.com/blockchainbeach/status/1050153791905882117 You can see our full coverage from Day 2 and Day 3 or our recap of the fireside chat between AngelList Co-Founder Naval Ravikant and author Nassim Nicholas Taleb using these links.

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BLOCKCON 2018: Day 1 Recap