That audio on this starts out a little quiet, but it soon gets louder. There are also fairly accurate auto-captions. The Internet Society now has a Blockchain Special Interest Group <https://www.isoc-bsig.org/>, open to all. [image: Book: Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy] <https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491> On *Thursday September 14 2017* the *Brooklyn Futurist Meetup <https://www.meetup.com/BLKNY30/>* presented *State of Blockchain 2017: Smartnetworks & the Blockchain Economy* <https://www.meetup.com/BLKNY30/events/240580804/> at Brooklyn Law School. Speaker *Melanie Swann*, author of *Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy <http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920037040.do>*, and founder of the *Institute for Blockchain Studies <http://www.blockchainstudies.org/>*, gave a comprehensive overview of this important and innovative protocol. Video is below. *View on YouTube*: https://youtu.be/HA53FRBLZ9o?t=13m19s <https://youtu.be/HA53FRBLZ9o?t=13m19s> *Book on Amazon*: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1491920491 *Twitter*: @bkfuturist + #blockchain <https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%40bkfuturist%20%2B%20blockchain&src=typd> Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9404#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9404#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9404 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -