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Leadership Structure

  • Prime Advisor : Gavin Andresen
  • ACM Chair : Ayush Khandelwal
  • ACM Vice Chair : Saakshaat Singh
  • ACM Blockchain Co-Chairs: Sathvik Birudavolu, Dan Cline
  • ACM Blockchain Vice Chair : Apurv Shah
  • ACM Blockchain Secretary: Kalyan Maddineni

Background

The Blockchain group is the newly formed Special Interest Group of the UMass ACM. The UMass ACM has an umbrella structure wherein it has 6 SIGs (Special Interest Groups) operating under the general body. Each SIG has its own members, leadership and structure.

As the General Body of the ACM, we allow space and flexibility to each SIG so that they can operate in a way that is best suited for their particular structure. Even in that, however, we ensure that no SIG struggles or starts dying because of lack of proactiveness. This is ensured through regular reports sent to the ACM at 60 day intervals and one on one meetings between the SIG and ACM Leadership to discuss their problems/progress.

The ACM provides all its SIGs with any support they require: financial, logistical, marketing.

Objectives

  • Give people an idea of blockchain technologies out there and how to use them.
  • Give in-depth talks and workshops (technical or otherwise) about popular solutions like Bitcoin, Lightning Network etc.
  • Provide people with the necessary tools to judge the legitimacy of different blockchain projects.
  • Show people how to get started working or contributing to projects they find interesting in the blockchain space. Get them involved in Open Source.
  • Events
  • Regular weekly club meetings
  • Handled by ACM Blockchain group
  • Discussing interesting papers/projects/ideas.
  • Idea pitches, and working on club projects

Pitch Competition

  • Other groups across campus pitch their projects and models to Gavin
  • Winning group gets suggestion and mentored by Gavin himself
  • Winning Group also gets rewards from the ACM

Workshops

Structured Workshops

Given by Gavin/Blockchain SIG Workshops may or may not rely on concepts from previous workshops.

Ideas:

  • Smart Contracts
  • How to run full Bitcoin node
  • Using Lighting
  • Bitcoin SPVs (Neutrino wallets)
  • UtreeXO
  • Privacy-preserving cryptocurrencies
  • Taproot / Schnorr signatures
  • Bitcoin pull request review
  • How to contribute to OSS projects
  • Elliptic Curve Cryptography
  • MimbleWimble
  • Alternatives to Blockchain (Hash Graphs, DAGs)

Talks by Gavin

Gavin’s experience building Bitcoin and why he thinks it is interesting. What’s Gavin working on now?

Company Talks

Get people from companies to give talks. Possible orgs for talks:

  • Binance
  • MIT DCI
  • Nebulous Labs
  • Algorand
  • Circle
  • BEN
  • Enigma

Club Project

One club project every semester

  • Project revolves around blockchain and related technologies
  • Project based on members’ own interests
  • Project grows in complexity over each semester OR Each project based on each other

Communications

Join the slack!

Potential other methods of communication:

  • Mailing list
  • Discord