Cornell Bitcoin Club Meeting #5 Follow-Up

Hi All, 

Happy Monday! Here are the slides & recording from the fifth meeting. 

Main Topic: Bitcoin x Lightning & Product  

• Manuela shared her Cornell & Bitcoin stories, her role at Strike & what Strike does, Strike's API, & more.

• Ella shared a brief introduction to lightning

See you Thursday (03/21) at 5:30pm in Gates G01! We will be having a Guest Speaker, Jason Brett. Jason is a Cornell alum, former U.S. Regulator at the FDIC, Author, Speaker, Regulatory Analyst at Forbes Digital Assets, Government and Regulatory Affairs Consultant at Key Bridge Advisors LLC, and Policy Advisor at the Bitcoin Policy Institute. 

Calendar:

• 03/25: Finance, Regulation, & The Role of the Market SEC: Commissioner Hester Peirce in conversation with Cornelll SC Johnson College Dean Andrew Karolyi. Register here

• 03/28: GUEST SPEAKER: Bradley Rettler, Associate Professor of Philosophy & Author of Resistance Money: A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin

• 04/04: Spring Break

• 04/11: GUEST SPEAKER: Elizabeth Stark, Lightning Labs

• 04/18: Halving Party & Plans for Fall '24

• 04/25: GUEST SPEAKER: D++, Entropy

• 05/02: GUEST SPEAKER: Arsh Molu, Human Rights Foundation

Reminders:

• Please join the Slack workspace

• Add the Gcal

• Review the Constitution and sign here (if you agree, of course!). 

• Drop your resume in our resume bank here for Fidelity (so far)

• Sign up here if you'd like a free ticket to Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville

Be in touch if there's anything I can do for you. Thank you!

Warmly,

Ella