so in 2006 I was asked by the government
of Bolivia to help decolonize the
education system using ICT s or
information and communication
technologies is the volume okay the you
see the the government of Bolivia had
been going through a revolution Evo
Morales the first indigenous president
came into power after months of protests
and riots after years of stagnant
economic growth and decades of minority
rule the population of the country is
majority indigenous and at the time the
population was among the poorest in the
world and yet the government didn't
reflect or represent the majority of the
population in the country with AVO this
completely changed and our task was to
eliminate all of the references of
Spanish culture and history from the
education system this was meant to
institutionalize somehow the new
political era this meant that we
reviewed all the curricula we reviewed
all the textbooks it was a big job and
very quickly we realized that it wasn't
going to work the teachers and students
protested schools were completely
ill-equipped to deal with this
transformational change and instead of
achieving the political objective we
ended up politicizing the education
system and the technology that we were
using to implement it this is a
photograph from the inauguration of Evo
Morales and I tell this story because I
think it's it's an object lesson in how
radical political politics can discord
technological innovation you know it
creates a Frankenstein it creates
unexpected results it places a political
agenda above the needs of the people
that the program is meant to help and
this is a lesson that I've learned many
times over the course
in my career I had worked primarily as a
adviser to government's on economic and
education policy projects in the
developing world for the United Nations
for the Harvard Institute for
International Development for several
countries directly including Kenya
Rwanda Namibia Ghana
Ethiopia India and of course Bolivia and
in the course of that work my colleagues
and I were often impeded by certain
structural issues over which we had no
influence and in 2015 I started looking
at blockchain as a potential way to deal
with some of these systemic issues that
eventually it could help in environments
with weak institutions with the lack of
access to the financial system with a
lack of privacy a lack of identity or
even a lack of economic independence so
I come to blockchain not so much as a
developer not at all in fact and not as
an investor but really as a humanitarian
as someone who based on my previous
experience is looking for ways for this
technology to help in parts of the world
where other things have not and this
brings us to the topic of of today which
is opportunities for collaboration
between a theory of 1 X and a theorem
Casas which in case you don't know have
a bit of a complicated history I'm here
to say that you know let's leave aside
the radical politics that have somehow
characterized the relationship between
these two chains in the past let's focus
on technological innovation together I'm
also here to say that the etherium
classic community is wholeheartedly
ready to be a full and constructive
partner with the etherion community I
invite you to work with us to
collaborate and focus on this innovative
technology together we're already
starting to do this and I'll talk about
some of the projects we have going on in
a bit first I want to reiterate that we
are committed to where
with the etherion community we share
history values DNA and increasingly
technical functionality we're committed
to the future of both aetherium and
aetherium casa
and while aetherium classic will remain
as a proof-of-work chain there's ample
opportunity for collaboration between
the two we all know that etc' was
established in response to the Dow hack
and while this is important it's
impossible to remain a viable blockchain
if you're defined simply by what you're
against you have to have your own
identity you have to have your own
vision for aetherium classic to survive
and grow it has to evolve it has to
collaborate it has to grow and so we're
starting with our nearest sibling
etherium to try to do that in my
outreach to the etherion community so
far I've met a number of really smart
interesting creative people I've made
new friends at the same time I've gotten
a lot of questions healthy thoughtful
tough questions and so what I'd like to
do is help answer some of those
questions and I'd like to tell you at
least five things that I think you need
to know about aetherium classic that
will help you consider my invitation to
collaborate with us
we established etc' labs in 2008 after
about a year of research and thinking we
operate an accelerator in San Francisco
and we have a dev team that maintains
the blockchain our mission is
essentially to build high quality
technology to create communities of
value and to fulfill the social promise
of blockchain I'll talk a bit more about
those in a minute
the one question we consistently get or
most often get is why are you doing this
what's the motivation and to put it
simply we have a deep and abiding
commitment to the potential of aetherium
classic and ethereal to these public
park chains that are truly you know
unique transformative and we'll have I
think enormous impact in the future
it's not really more than that uh you
know most recently I was Dean of the a
Dean at the Columbia School of
International and public affairs a
pretty comfortable and steady job
I left that because I felt like this was
an opportunity to shape how this
technology will be implemented and how
it will impact people's lives I've
staked my career and my reputation on
this mission so I'm in it and we're here
to fulfill it I'd like to say we
couldn't do this work without the
partnership of the etherium Cossack
cooperative Bob summer oil and gas Korea
I think you're here somewhere you know
thank you for your help your full
partners in everything we're trying to
do the first thing I'd like you to know
about if you're in classic is that
despite what you might read on Twitter
it's growing by external measures the
hash rate has grown you know about
40,000 percent since 2016 the community
has reached about 15,000 members in Asia
alone there's probably another 5,000 or
more in the US and I think it's
refreshing to see that these two key
metrics show an increase at the same
time that the market cap has declined
since December 2017 this means that the
growth is organic it means there's
fundamental things about the blockchain
that people are seeing beyond
speculative investment it's also growing
by internal measures our dev team is
hard at work you know in et Cie was
first established there were a few
resources there were not a lot of
developers to build or to share it took
a while for the blockchain to really get
itself organized to get the community to
a point where it could actually innovate
but more recently that's changed our
roadmap consists of maintaining
compatibility with aetherium in the past
this was perhaps a default choice but
now it's a strategic one so that we can
be in a position to cooperate more fully
in September we implemented the Atlantis
hard fork which adopted the Byzantium
changes
from aetherium to aetherium classic
we're well on our way to adopting the
Agharta hard fork which will bring the
Constantinople changes to aetherium
classic and later in 2020 we'll do the
same with Istanbul and so on at the same
time I'm pleased to say that we're also
pursuing several projects that we think
are forward-looking in an innovative
that will contribute to both ecosystems
the second thing I'd like you to know
about aetherium classic is that is that
we're here to collaborate and contribute
and I'm pleased to announce three
partnerships that represent this
commitment and the first is get coin get
coin is deploying on a theorem classic
in 2020 we will have a regular series of
hackathons and bounties that will be
available to both the etherium classic
and etherion communities and as I
understand it this is the first
cross-chain deployment for get coins so
a warm and hearty welcome to ethereal
classic and for a theorem classic this
is the first platform for crowdfunding
developer projects and we feel like with
get coin it's with a trusted partner in
the right way another partnership that
we're pleased to announce his swarm as
of yesterday etc' labs and swarm will be
working together to help develop their
prototype and help implement their
roadmap we've had a chance to spend a
good deal of time with the team we're
comfortable and excited about what they
have planned and we'll be contributing
both funding and developer resources to
help them achieve it the third
partnership that I'm pleased to share is
that etc' labs and POC have announced
and will launch while cob connect this
is a managed infrastructure service that
will help developers build on top of
aetherium and aetherium classic it'll be
available to both networks it will
provide a single API with support for D
apps and wallets and endpoints and it'll
be free for the first two years there's
also an enterprise
you know a theorem Kasich needs this
infrastructure in order to grow we can't
really grow without it and we thought if
we're building it anyway why not add on
some extra and share it with the
etherion community as a gesture of
goodwill it really represents our an
expression of our commitment to making
sure that developers have what they need
to build and I'd like to thank block and
recognize Matt lamb who's here from
block today for their cooperation with
us in this we look forward to launching
this in early 2020 and I hope you'll use
it the third thing I'd like you to know
about a theorem classic is we're
committed to building high quality
technology especially if it helps
address fundamental long-term questions
that we're all trying to answer one
example of this is our collaboration on
developing a prototype for a stateless
client solution with Alexia Kunal
I'll let Alexi talk about his work he
can do that in much greater detail and
much more accuracy than I ever can but
we're really pleased to be associated
with this project and I should say that
this isn't about advancing a theorem
Casas this is about working with leading
developers who are answering the big
questions this is something we're
interested in we think it helps
everybody and we think that this project
fits squarely into one of those big
questions a second project that were
engaged in is looking at ways for
aetherium classic to help address some
of the scalability issues in ethereal
and what we've done is started a
research project to find a way to use it
the Aryan classic as a short-term data
availability layer for aetherium this
grew out of a blog post from Vitalik
over the summer on aetherium research
and you know given etcs
14 second block time and lower gas fees
this seems like a viable solution
there's obviously some challenges but we
think that it's a it's a promising start
we'll start with five client support to
reduce gas costs for ahead of
verification but Phi client support and
now is not enough on its own to solve
the problem we have to think
roughly about proof-of-work verification
and what that means and and what we can
do with that to prevent bloat in the
network so please stay tuned for more
news about this project as we develop it
if you're interested in learning more or
if you're interested in collaborating
with us on it please let us know is
being led by Isaac artist to artist
who's a member of our core development
team we're also supporting the EBM
infrastructure with LLVM we aim to
provide front-end support for
programming languages beyond solidity
and to provide LLVM base tooling for
developers we're adding support for rust
for C and C++ and we can add other
languages as well this will enable the
LLVM infrastructure to support via the e
vm along with u özil and making a future
you know foolproof change for developers
the project is led by Allen leaf also
from the et Cie vibes dev team and he's
here at the conference so if you want to
see a preview of the compiler or you
want to learn more about it please talk
to him and then the the last part of our
commitment to building high quality
technology is really the core dev team
we're organized into three groups the
the client team which works on the
protocol and partnership with change
safe the EVM team that works on LVM and
other projects in partnership with
second state and then the tooling team
which has launched open RPC and the Jade
suite of tools I should also mention
that we partner with white bloc which
develops you know a test net and a live
sandbox for things before they go to
Maine men the next thing I'd like you to
know about aetherium classic is that
we're committed to creating communities
of value and by communities of value I
mean creating value through financial
and data independence the kind of which
you can only derive from peer to peer
censorship resistant trustless exchange
we're also committed to communities of
value that rely on the kind of and
you can only get from a public walk
chain one concrete example of this is
the accelerator that we operated in San
Francisco we've hosted more than 20
projects over the last year in our space
there we provide equity investment we
provide a business development tech
development support in addition to that
we've invested in over 30 projects and
partners throughout the year and these
are not etc' specific they may benefit
etc' but more generally we're interested
in helping the ecosystem grow and
develop here's a sample of some of the
projects I won't talk about all of them
certainly I'll just highlight two so
salvo operates a stable coin pegged to
the Mexican peso that enables immigrants
in the US to remit payments home to
Mexico without the cost and time
required with other payment services or
original my which uses the blockchain to
record notarize documents notarized
signatures and voting outcomes in Brazil
to reduce corruption if you want to
learn more I can I can share this later
and then the last thing I'd like to
share about if you're in classic is
we're committed to fulfilling the social
promise of blockchain I think you know
people define this in different ways we
define it I think in in a unique way we
think a lot about how the technology
well it's important needs to fulfill a
social and economic need it's the only
way that it will see mass adoption and
in thinking about that need we consider
three fundamental transformations taking
place in the globe today this is a map
of the global distribution of the
population by the year 2050 and that
first - and it demonstrates the first
transformation which is demographic by
2050 they'll be about nine point eight
billion people on the planet the
majority of those people will live in
developing countries in Asia South Asia
and Africa at the same time that
concentration of population will
coincide with mass urbanization so for
the first time most people will live in
a certain part of the world and they'll
live in cities or on the edges
the second transformation is financial
most people in this part of the world
will not participate at all in the
formal economy they'll earn their living
in the informal economy they probably
won't have bank accounts they probably
won't earn a paycheck or pay taxes in
the way that many of us or at least some
of us do today
and the third transformation is digital
I think you're probably all familiar
with that and being here today is a
testament to your recognition that the
digital transformation taking place
currently is going to continue and
change the way people engage with each
other and the world for us this all
paints a picture of a world where the
majority of the population will live in
areas where the necessary infrastructure
isn't in place where they won't make use
of the current financial system as it's
currently constructed and whether lead
digital lives they may live in the edge
of cities without regular electricity or
plumbing they may not get a paycheck but
they'll have a mobile phone to me this
is an exceptional use case for
blockchain and it's a long-term use case
one that we should start building
towards today and I hope we can start
building towards that together
to sum up I would just like to reiterate
our commitment to collaborating with the
etherion community we're here for the
long-term
we're sincere about this collaboration
we mean it you know the the etherium
community is to my mind one of the most
creative and innovative communities in
the world
it's strong it's resilient look what
you've built I think we have something
to contribute and I think the community
here has something to gain from our
contributions please
come and work with us get to know us and
I hope that you can continue to welcome
me and my colleagues from etherion
classic into the Theorem community thank
you