Friday Hacks #62, Feb 7
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This week, we have a talk by Alex Teo from D’Crypt. Do note the change in venue, it’s back at UTown again! See you there
Date/Time: Friday, February 7th at 6:30pm Venue: SR2, Education Resource Centre, University Town; Map: //goo.gl/maps/2Zy3MFree pizza is served before the talks.
Talk: Bitcoin Mining at D'Crypt
Talk Description:
Bitcoin is a P2P digital crypto-currency that has taken the world by storm. At D'Crypt, we have recently developed a Bitcoin miner that runs on our high performance FPGA-based compute node named Raptor. We would like to take the opportunity to provide a short overview on Bitcoin and to present our work on Bitcoin mining.
Speaker Profile:
Alex is currently an engineer at D'Crypt Pte Ltd, a local engineering company that works on embedded cryptographic solutions and services. He recently graduated from NUS Faculty of Engineering, majoring in Computer Engineering. Alex designs custom FPGA-based applications that run on our high-performance compute nodes at D'Crypt.