Early Days of Ethereum

Preserving the history and stories of the people who built Ethereum.

Kieren James-Lubin

Kieren James-Lubin

Haskell client developer, Co-Founder of BlockApps

(Mar 2014 to present)

Co-Founder of BlockApps and developer of the Haskell Ethereum client. Host of The Early Days of Ethereum video series. Son of Joe Lubin. Was present at "Red Wedding" but involved in Ethereum in NYC earlier.

Joe emailed Kieren from Miami on 28th Jan 2014:

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Links which Joe sent Kieren:

Kieren decided to join the project on 22nd March 2014 and spoke to Vitalik on 24th March 2014:

Gmail screenshots from March 2014 (in time order):

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Kieren was present in Zug for the "Red Wedding", travelling there with his father, Joe.

He attended the Cryptoeconomicon 1 conference on January 26th to January 29th of 2015, which had a "Who's Who?" of speakers and attendees.

Later that year, Kieren announced BlockApps STRATO with Victor Wong and James Hormuzdiar at DEVCON1 (snapshot). The Haskell client and the software stack surrounding it was used as the client software for the first Blockchain-as-a-Service on Microsoft Azure which was also announced at DEVCON1. The talks were back-to-back on 10th November 2014.

DEVCON 1: BlockApps STRATO - Victor Wong, Kieren James-Lubin, Jim Hormuzdiar
by Ethereum, November 10, 2015

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