On a cold Friday December night, with a Christmas market buzzing outside, a small group of Blockchain enthusiasts gathered for a ‘day’ (actually an afternoon) of discussions with luminaries from the community organized by , a new global education center. As is traditional for events in Berlin, the time of year had thrown well-made plans into disruption, and the organizers have asked me to host a panel between all the speakers. Binary District On the panel are (Blockchain entrepreneur), (Researcher and entrepreneur), (Developer), and (Ethereum team). I was interested in digging into how enthusiastic developers take their ideas into reality with smart contracts and ‘traditional’ programming languages and infrastructure. Alexander Ivanov Dmitry Meshkov Alexander Chepurnoy Vlad Zamfir I wouldn’t say all my questions were exactly answered, but it was an interesting panel nonetheless. Enjoy! Originally published at dzone.com .