I was invited speaker at the Sofia Science Festival (May 2019). My talk was about cryptography, but for non-technical people, absolute beginners, without any math or programming background. Slides: Cryptography for Absolute Beginners These are my presentation slides about hash functions, MAC codes, key derivation functions, symmetric encryption and AES, asymmetric encryption and ECIES, digital

Today I was speaker at the jProfessionals conference in Sofia. My talk was about cryptography in Java: Hashes, MAC, Key Derivation, Encrypting Passwords, Symmetric Ciphers & AES, Digital Signatures & ECDSA. I explained the concepts of Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) and the most popular Java crypto libraries like Bouncy Castle. Video: Java Cryptography for Devs

Today I had a nice talk about the upcoming decentralized cloud platforms, which will provide decentralized computing, along with decentralized storage, decentralized databases, decentralized messaging and many other services. Video (English) – Decentralized Cloud Slides – Decentralized Cloud

Today a gave a technical talk titled “Crypto Wallets: A Technical Perspective” at the OpenFest 2018 conference in Sofia about crypto wallets, wallet standards and the cryptography behind them, with live examples in JavaScript. Slides from OpenFest 2018 – Crypto Wallets: A Technical Perspective (by Svetlin Nakov)  Video from OpenFest 2018 – Crypto Wallets: A Technical Perspective

I am happy to announce that I was invited as speaker at CryptoBlockCon 2018 – Las Vegas. I will give an overview talk about the consensus algorithms in the blockchain networks, such as proof of work, proof of stake and byzantine fault tolerance. Event: CryptoBlockCon – Las Vegas, 2018 Date: 11-December-2018, 12:05 – 12:25 (@ Blockchain Tech

Today I had a talk at the SoftUnit Conf 2018 titled “Multi-Signature Crypto-Wallets“, where I explained the the problems with single-user-controlled wallets, the concepts of multisig wallets, multisig addresses, how multi-signature wallets are implemented in Bitcoin and Ethereum and demonstrated the Gnosis multisig wallet contract (Solidity code), running on the Ropsten Ethereum testnet, along with the

I am happy to announce that I was accepted as a speaker at the Blockchain Technology Conference 2018 | Berlin. The conference is one of the most significant technical blockchain events in Europe, so I will be happy to meet colleagues, developers, blockchain engineers and fellows from the crypto industry in Berlin in November 2018. My

In the last month I joined as advisor for weiDex – a Decentralized Crypto Exchange, which is preparing to launch an ICO (token sale event). Why I believe in the weiDex Project and the ICO? I truly believe that weiDex project will be successful, because of many positive indications: weiDex has valid business case, with strong