Property and Real Estate Some counties have begun to utilize blockchain to record title transfer, but it’s still a couple of years away. Blockchain will appear earlier in the real estate world to help generate a protfolio to generate more granular recording of all the components inovolved in a real estate asset especially in the…
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BYU Blockchain Summit – John Johnson
Blockchain: What is it and what can it do? I got up at 5am this morning which is something I never do, but decided it would be worth the drive to Happy Valley to listen to local leaders in the Blockchain world. Jonathan Johnson, president of Medici Ventures Fall of 2013 Johnson’s son asked his…
Maker Faire
After a week with the Google tech elite today was a day dedicated to fun, curiosity and fascination. Callie brought Devin down Yesterday so we could spend today experiencing the inventions of the Bay Area’s eccentric, creative, technology minds. I’m not sure how to describe Maker Faire. There are vendors selling everything from small CNC…
Google IO Day 3
ATAP – future science fiction awesomeness The last day of Google I/O. I go directly to the ATAP line and I’m lucky enough to get in. Trust API The project formerly known as Abacus becomes the Trust API. The purpose is to eliminate the hassles of passwords an mult-factor authentication. It will be available to…
Google IO Day 2
Commuted to Google IO via the Bay Area Bike share program again. Since there’s only one bike share station near my hotel and only one near Google and there are 7000 developers here I was worried there wouldn’t be any bikes. Nothing to worry about. I’m pretty sure I’m the only one using the bike…
Google IO Day 1
Google IO day one is over and my feet are killing me. Here are my key take aways for the day: Firebase Firebase has become a key component in the Google ecosystem. What was once a real time database is now a platform for your entire infrastructure and application business development needs. Today there were…
Mountain West Ruby Conference
I’ve been to a good number of conferences over the years. A lot of them cost a lot of money. If you are a geek and a ruby lover (who isn’t?) then the best event you’ll ever attend is the Mountain West Ruby conference. The schedule is up. It’s only a hundred bucks and the…