Finding Value in Blockchain Industry with Jeffrey Wernick
Gem Centre, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam, 24-25, May, 2018
I. Who is Jeffrey Wernick?
Jeffrey Wernick an early investor in Bitcoin is an angel investor who invested in Uber & Airbnb early. He is also an early investor and a member of advisory board in QTUM.
Jeffrey Wernick is an entrepreneur and early investor in Bitcoin since 2009.
He is an undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate studies at The University of Chicago.
He started career trading options and futures on the CBOC, CBOT and the CME while being a college student. After working at Salomon Brothers and later the National Bank of Detroit in senior positions for quantitative research, capital trading, risk management and loan pricing, he ran his own company AVI Portfolio Services Company, Inc. specialized in risk management in tailored and exotic derivative products, which was sold in 1984 to the largest insurance company in diversified financial interests. Ever since, he has been managing money, including his own personal wealth, and is highly experienced with investing in distressed and bankrupt companies, as well as in other domestic and international investment opportunities, including seed capital, angel investing, venture capital, real estate, currencies, commodities, mining, all forms of derivatives and structured financial products, sharing economy, lending platforms, bitcoin, blockchain, biomedical, human genome project and payment systems.
Jeffrey’s 40 years of experience includes investments in Uber and Airbnb, after which he turned his focus to bank transactions, lending platforms, and the blockchain industry. His advisory role will help guide Qtum’s international growth and development strategies.
“I meet with many people in the blockchain and cryptocurrency community, and what impressed me about Qtum is the people and their pursuit of intellectual integrity,” Mr. Wernick said.
II. What is the QTUM?
Qtum is an open source Blockchain project that is developed by the Singapore-based Qtum Foundation. Qtum is a hybrid blockchain application platform. Qtum’s core technology combines a fork of bitcoin core, an Account Abstraction Layer allowing for multiple Virtual Machines including the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and Proof-of-Stake consensus aimed at tackling industry use cases. We believe this will allow Smart Contracts and Decentralized Applications to run on a familiar foundation, while offering a robust environment for developers. The underlying technology uses an “Account Abstract Layer”, which acts as a bridge between the EVM and the Unspent Transaction Output model of Bitcoin Core. There will be Oracles and Datafeed functionality, allowing developers to create Smart Contracts built around trusted sources of information.
“Qtum is committed to decentralization, and their approach to blockchain is more constructive and adaptive than anything else I’ve seen. Qtum is committed to open source where greater privacy is preserved, and greater benefits accrue to everyone participating in the ecosystem.”
The Qtum Foundation plans to be the public blockchain for business. Development efforts will allow us to market this platform to various industries, such as: Mobile Telecommunications, Counterfeit Protection, Finance, Industrial Logistics (shipping, warranty, etc), and Manufacturing
III. “Finding Value in Blockchain Industry” with Speaker Jeffrey Wernick
Jeffrey Wernick is VIP speaker at Blockchain Festival Vietnam conference will held on 24 - 25 May at Gem Center, 08 Nguyen Binh Khiem Street, 1 District, Ho Chi Minh city, Viet Nam.
Blockchain Festival is a series of engaging conferences held by Huobi Pro around the world. The conferences invite world class Blockchain projects and speakers globally. The first station is in Vietnam, a country where Blockchain assets ownership and interest in digital assets are booming, which makes Vietnam the perfect first stop for this conference series.
In this conference Wernick will present about the topic: “Finding Value in Blockchain Industry" and “Where will VCs invest in 2018: What’s HOT and what’s NOT?”
Not only that you have a chance to listen to founding members from top public chain projects share their in-depth knowledge on Blockchain technology progress. What is going to happen next?
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