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Blockchain Beach continued our coverage of the Ethereal Summit at the Knockdown Center in Brooklyn, New York. You can see coverage from Day 1 here, follow our entire set of live tweets, or read below for the Day 2 highlights, which included a keynote from Ethereum Co-founder and Consensys Founder Joe Lubin and an exciting live (digital) art auction: Day 2 began with a keynote from Sheila Warren of the World Economic Fund's Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. One of her main learnings from her time working on humanitarian projects is that you cannot build incentives for what you think people want. You need to work with them to make sure that your system makes sense in the real world: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/995312839702339584 So what was the better solution? https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/995314589914095616 Because we want to avoid: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/995315085898903553 Next was Sam Cassatt, Chief Strategy Officer of Consensys, who spoke out about how the world is changing: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/995325593519579136 Kavita Gupta followed with a major announcement for Consensys Ventures: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/995339159022825472 After the announcement, Kavita was joined by Consensys Founder Joe Lubin and The Daily Show's Ronny Chieng (who had previously interviewed Lubin for the show): https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/995340726316797952 Ronny had some strong feelings about Ripple: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/995341195357360128 But then pointed out an ongoing issue (and one that Blockchain Beach is working on): https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/995343006973747202 They ended with a great message and goal to strive for: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/995348047382097922 Next Ryan Selkis, also known online as twobitidiot, lead a talk on transparency, the day after his Twitter was hacked: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/995382561055690752 We got to speak to California Congressional Candidate, Brain Forde, after his keynote: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/995386188235202561 Keep an eye out for Laura Shin's new podcast "Unchained," which she taped live from Ethereal: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/995421341833662465 The talks ended with a closing keynote from Joe Lubin: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/995435348917354496 But the day was not done! Codex hosted a live auction for some digital art: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/995456235003633664 How much would you pay for this CryptoKitty? https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/995465464875831297 And one bonus tweet highlighting some of the event's fashion: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/995760781860974595 Consensys and Ethereal were great hosts and we look forward to their next event! If you missed day one of our coverage, you can see it here.

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