hey guys. Doing a presentation on ethereum on Thursday

VoR0220

Hey guys. I'm doing a presentation on bitcoin and crypto 2.0 platforms BitShares, ethereum, and maidsafe. Im presenting this to mostly comp sci majors. What do you think I should highlight when talking about ethereum?

BruceSwanson

You might encourage your audience to speculate on what the first smart contracts will do.

VoR0220

That's what I was thinking. But how would I go about summarizing what Ethereum is in 5 minutes?

VoR0220

or shortly in general.

robmyers

For the comp.sci crowd:
- Ethereum is a distributed consensus system for publishing and computing small amounts of important public data.
- It's blockchain-based, so it cannot be censored and you don't have to trust the network to use it.
- It includes a turing-complete (but Agoric, that is you pay for each instruction so infinite loops aren't a problem) virtual machine that you can program in novel languages like Solidity and Serpent.
- It's a toolbox for implementing other systems: you can use it to create altcoins and tokens easily, or make smart contracts and DAOs with it.

I think the only thing Ethereum doesn't do that the other two can is the mass storage that Maidsafe provides, but maybe Swarm would address that.

GeorgeHallam

That's a pretty good description @robmyers.

@VoR0220, if you'd like an Ethereum slide dec we use to explain Ethereum ping me a message and I'll send it over to you.