ETHBerlin04 2024
2024-05-24..2024-05-26
Berlin, Germany
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Ceremony | 41m | |
A full rundown of venue rules, schedules and hackathon mechanics: five floors open 24/7 with naps, meals and a midnight snack; team size max five and physical… | ||
| We need Censorships | Fatemeh Fannizadeh | 16m |
Censorship means limiting access to data, and on Ethereum it appears at three layers: consensus layer, application (dApp) layer and social layer. OFAC’s… | ||
| Building for Big V Value | Nick Almond | 37m |
Argues that crypto optimizes small numbers like TVL and DAUs over real-world benefits, citing memecoin dominance (Dog with hat token, pump.fun) and day‑one… | ||
| Are there limits to the reach of US Sanctions laws? | Peter van Valkenburg | 35m |
OFAC designated Tornado Cash Aug 2022 and prosecutors in the Southern District of New York bring conspiracy and sanctions-related charges against its… | ||
| Information Flow Control | Christopher Goes | 26m |
Argues that privacy is not a property protocols can grant but a user decision about emissions, and that useful solutions treat privacy as constrained… | ||
| The Challenge of Decentralised Communication | Matthew Hodgson | 30m |
Matrix started in 2014 and admits decentralised comms is 10x harder than centralized rivals: rearchitecting end‑to‑end encryption, state resolution and… | ||
| Anarchy, Truth and Justice | Edmund Edgar | 32m |
Tracks historical examples from the Diggers to Free Software, argues that forking cheat code is the concrete defense against coercion, and shows failures and… | ||
| The Silent Strings of Proof of Personhood | Puja Ohlhaver, Mikhail Nikulin | 27m |
Idena runs synchronous cognitive flip tests every few weeks and adds identity staking then onchain delegation in March 2021 but practical results diverge from… | ||
| The Fight for Privacy | Ameen Soleimani | 31m |
History of tornado cash (second SNARK deployment with a ~1,000‑person trusted setup) and the legal fallout after ~$600M from a video game hack flows through… | ||
| Ethereum Community and Values | Vitalik Buterin | 37m |
Argues that zero-knowledge proofs = blockchains because they add privacy and scalability, cites concrete wins: blobs + L2s under $0.01 and 5–10 second finality… | ||
| Closing Ceremony and Winner Announcements | 01h 22m | |
The event closes with concrete outcomes: 802 checked in and 83 submissions, split into four tracks (25 social, 19 infra, 18 defensive, 14 freedom to transact)… | ||
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