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Blockchain Guild Community

Blockchain Guild Community

The purpose of the Blockchain Guild is (TBD):

Some possible thoughts:

• Apprentice, Journeyman, Master?
• Transparency to all stakeholders (patrons, customers, guild members)
• Participatory and inclusive practices
• Learning Community
• "Rough consensus & working code"
• Non-Heirarchical and Decentralized as possible
• Support infrastructure & commons for blockchains
• To avoid needing incorporating, can we avoid custody of funds from patrons, and use multisig with timelock act as a non-custodial escrow?

Members

The Blockchain Guild members are:

• Christopher Allen:

  • Internet Cryptography Pioneer — Co-author TLS Security Standard
  • Principal Architect — Blockstream Corporation
  • Decentralized Identity Advocate — host of #RebootingWebOfTrust & co-chair of the W3C Credentials Community
  • Technology Leadership — former Faculty in the MBA in Sustainable Systems program at Pinchot.edu
  • Blogs at Life With Alacrity and on Twitter is @ChristopherA
  • Resides in the Bay Area of California USA

• Steve Johnson:

  • Professional Amateur - creator of bots and nodes
  • Electronics repair and logistics in previous lives, focused on Bitcoin since late 2012
  • Currently resides in SW Arkansas trying to bring Bitcoin to the Forest
  • Twitter @internaut42

• Bruno Volpato:

  • Apprentice at the Blockchain Guild.
  • Back-End Engineer — TOTVS Labs.
  • Self-taught developer for more than 10 years and with a passion for Blockchain and Cryptography. Expert in automating work, and creating crawlers and bots for all sorts of crazy things.
  • Twitter is https://twitter.com/brunocvcunha.
  • Originally from Brazil, but living for over a year in the San Francisco Bay Area 😎

• Bogdan Avram:

  • Apprentice
  • Blockchain enthusiast
  • Student at School 42
  • Algorithms, C and Java skills

Communications

The Blockchain Guild community maintains the following communication channels:

• Shared Document Repositories (github): https://github.com/BlockchainGuild
• Community Documents (github): https://github.com/BlockchainGuild/BlockchainGuildCommunity
• Twitter: TBD
• Forum/Mailing List: TBD

More may be added as needed.

Copyright & License

These documents are Copyright (c) 2017 by the Blockchain Guild and are licensed CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License)

Learning Resources

• Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line — The best way to learn to learn deeply about bitcoin is to avoid GUIs (even bitcoin-qt), and instead learn it from the command line.

Current Bounties

• 0.5 BTC, split among Apprentice contributions to testing confirming the quality of Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line tutorial and helping update it to Bitcoin 0.15.1
• 0.5 BTC, for an accepted Journeymam proposal and final code for a simple C app doing RPC to bitcoind using some libwally-core to Chapter 12 of Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line.
• 0.5 BTC, for an accepted Journeyman proposal and final code for a better C-based RPC library to bitcoind than used in Chapter 12 of Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line.

Disclaimer

TBD

Contributing

This is an open source project and we welcome contributions. There are many ways to help.

To get started, please read the contribution guidelines.

Reporting Problems

If you find typos, mistakes, inconsistencies or other problems in the Blockchain Guild documents, please let us know by filing an issue at the appropriate issue tracker (we use multiple repositories). No issue is too small.

Version History

• 2017-12: Community started on Github

RoadMap

• Create Github Community

• Create website for blockchainguild.com, maybe also blockchaincommons.org (ChristopherA currently holds these domains)

• We need a CONTRIBUTING.md, something along the lines of ParticipatoryOrgs-Community/CONTRIBUTING.md & ipfs/contributing.md

• Convene an online community meeting of initial participants, create an initial proposal for participatory governance

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