It was a fun time today at the city of Ikeja, where the third edition of the BEAM Lagos Meet-up was held. There was so much to learn, and so many people to meet. It was exciting to finally meet and get to interact with the persons behind the usernames some of us have come to know.

Though I arrived a bit late, I was just in time for the first Skype session, which was with Connor O'Higgins (BEAM Ambassador, Ireland, Dublin). He gave his view on privacy and he made it known that privacy shouldn't be seen as a medium to hide whatever one is doing on the blockchain. According to him, Privacy is about who controls information. It is about not giving anybody detail about your transaction. I was actually blown away when Connor quoted a part of the Nigerian constitution, it was so amazing, to me, it simply showed how much he must have put into preparing for this Meet-up and how committed he is to sharing his knowledge and making it more real to us as Nigerians.

Next was a discussion panel in which John Makinde @jotmax was the moderator and the panelist were Steve Moses @stevenmosoes (founder @flaminghelpers) and @captainphilips (founder of SteemLagos) During the discussion, they shared their experiences on the blockchain and how they started their individual projects, they also talked about doing different things other than just blogging on the blockchain, there's more to the blockchain.

After that it was time for the second Skype session, which was with Matt Starkey (CEO @oracle-d). Though I wasn't fully present during this session, as I had to attend to a few urgent things, but when I got back, I learnt that he talked about... Multi proof of brain benefits: Incentivize people to perform valuable real words tasks, hold Steem and reduce the cost of engagement, Reward innovation and change culture, Complete transparent fund distribution.

Then it was @marshalllife who took the podium next, as he introduced us to the Enumivo project. He took us on a tour of the Emunivo road map, what they are currently doing and the projects they have on ground. Indeed blockchain is the future.

I almost forgot, we also had guys from quidax.com who came to give us a briefing on what the quidax exchange offers.

@marshalllife was the one who closed the show, with his talk on the Enumivo project, after which there was a general photograph session, and also a great networking session. The Networking session was so amazing that it further lead to some sort of an after party.

@samest birthday is next week Friday, so we decided to have a little pee birthday celebration, though only eight of us were at this after party which took place at COLDSTONE

And just in case you want to ask why I don't appear in most of the pictures, it's simple, I prefer being behind the camera, than being in front of it, after all there's already a @gracehills having one more will be a disaster 😂

In all, the Meet Up was the best I've attended and that's in terms of everything and it's not just because of the pizza and the COLDSTONE Ice Cream, which I must say were sumptuous to say the least.

Shout Out

Shout out goes to everyone who made out time to come and to all those who in one way contributed to the success of the Meet-up From @agbona to @jotmax @samest @stevenmosoes @barineka @marshalllife @bookoons @captainphilips @sammiegold @tezzmax @gbindinazeez @udezee @emekasegun @gracehills @florae and @ubongj.

This has been a @daniel-otaniel coverage.

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