Open your free digital wallet here to store your cryptocurrencies in a safe place.
Microsoft’s head of US Technology Financial Services, Marley Gray, explained more specifically why Microsoft had taken an interest in this international and decentralized technology event:
“Microsoft is excited to sponsor and attend Ethereum’s DevCon1. We find the Ethereum blockchain incredibly powerful and look forward to collaborating within the Ethereum Community. We see a future where the combination of Microsoft Azure and Ethereum can enable new innovative platforms like Blockchain-as-a-Service. This will serve as an inflection point to bring blockchain technology to enterprise clientele”.
Already, it has been confirmed that not only will Microsoft be in attendance, but so will Nick Szabo. That is actually no surprise given that Szabo coined the term “smart contract” many many years ago and has become increasingly vocal on the internet as his pet idea has started to come to fruition. Smart contracts are a large part of Ethereum’s mainstream appeal, though the concept is still in the process of gaining momentum. The future prospects of robots and computers replacing humans for certain types of jobs has always been on the fringe of human imagination. The more you think about smart contracts, the more you realize that such a futuristic world couldn’t exist in a stable state without something like smart contracts. As panelists at the Money20/20 conference stated:
“Cryptocurrency is the most natural way for machines to pay machines.”
Bitcoin-inspired blockchain technology, of which Ethereum definitely is, has seen a lot of validation lately. Other Bitcoin-inspired blockchain technology like BitShares is also gaining traction, though not in the form of Microsoft sponsorships. Besides the fundraising and actual release of Ethereum’s Frontier alpha and a shaky first few days, the formation of a conference is a milestone that most “altchains” never achieve – not that there was any doubt that Ethereum would make it this far, anyways. After all, even Imogen Heap has even started using Ethereum, why wouldn’t Microsoft be next?
Open your free digital wallet here to store your cryptocurrencies in a safe place.
(LuissEnLabs) LUISS ENLABS in collaboration with Bitcoin Foundation Italia and
Codemotion presents the first of a series of technical conferences
“Bitcoin ~ Hands On Code”.
The event will take place on Wednesday, 2nd of July, from 4pm to 8pm and enjoys the participation of speakers Thomas Bertani, Founder&CEO BitBoat Ltd, Guido Dassori, IT&building automation Freelancer, Luca Matteis, Semantic Web Developer, as well as Francesco Simonetti, Andrey Zamovskiy, Nickolay Babenko in live streaming from San Francisco.
The mission of the conference is to remove friction between bitcoin and
developers, encouraging the development of an appropriate tech scene
around Bitcoin, an incredible open-source based technology, aiming to
disrupt finance and money as we know them today.
There’s an
enormous opportunity for developers, who are already jumping in and will
have a real impact on the future, contributing to this open-source
technology.
Jump on board!
Program:
16.00 – Welcome: Tobia De Angelis, Augusto Coppola
16.15 – 17.15 – Panel moderated by Franco Cimatti, Developer and President of Bitcoin-Italia: Speakers’ interventions
17.15 – 17.30 – Break
17.30 – End (Around 20.00) – Hands on Code, guided by Thomas Bertani, a developer with a deep expertise in bitcoin/blockchain and founder of BitBoat.net.
Open your free digital wallet here to store your cryptocurrencies in a safe place.
(CoinDesk) The weekend before last week’s Bitcoin2014 conference in Amsterdam,
22-year-old Matthew Kenahan had a choice to make – one that he said was
“probably one of the most difficult decisions I’ve ever had to make”.
My sincere thanks to anyone who voted for me in the blockchain awards. I apologize for not being able to accept due to conflict of interest
— AndreasMAntonopoulos (@aantonop) 16 Maggio 2014
“[Bitcoin]
allows you to create a unique address, for a very specific cause […]
we see both the incoming and outgoing transactions, and we can see that
it’s used for a very specific cause.”
Open your free digital wallet here to store your cryptocurrencies in a safe place.
(Cryptocoinchronicle) The Third CoinsSummit is to be held in London this July. San
Francisco was the acting ground of the previous CoinSummit convention
that was held in March; as the second convention presented, this next
summit will feature a series of panel discussions and speeches from
bitcoin enthusiasts, hedge fund professionals, VC and angel investors,
and experienced cryptocurrency entrepreneurs.
The information posted on the CoinSummit official site:
“CoinSummit London is a two-day event connecting virtual
currency entrepreneurs, angel and VC investors, hedge fund professionals
and others who are looking to learn and network in the virtual currency
industry. CoinSummit will take place on July 10-11 2014 at the East
Wintergarden London.”
Some notable speakers include Silk Road Equity co-founder Matthew
Roszak, new Bitcoin Foundation board of director Brock Pierce, angel
investor Roger Ver, and Maidsafe CEO David Irvine. Some of the others
participants include Megabigpower founder David Carlson, Lamassu CEO
Zach Harvey, eToro CEO Yoni Assia, and many others.
This 3rd CoinSummit, organizers are presenting a new set.
Besides the usual structure, a special platform is being organized for a
few startup companies. Coinsummit has informed at their site, that ten
startups will be given the chance to present in front of the entire
CoinSummit audience and will be chosen on the basis of the size and
charm of the opportunity they are designing, the strength of the team,
and their traction / metrics / achievements.
 |
| Some of the speakers |
The summit is organized by Pamir Gelenbe, a strongly firmed crypto
currencies entrepreneur and partner at Hummingbird Ventures. After the
last summit in March, Gelenbe has stated:
“We hope to bring together entrepreneurs, VC investors
and folks from hedge funds who want to learn about bitcoins as an asset
class…we really want to focus on the business side of Bitcoin as we
don’t think there has been an event like this before.”
CoinSummit has been the leading hand on taking Bitcoin discussion to
higher grounds by cementing the bonds between the Bitcoin communities
around the world and relaying trustworthy information to the media and
business investors.
CoinSummit London 2014, will be held at the East Wintergarden and
take place on July 10-11. Entrance to the conference is invite-only.
Digital currency enthusiasts and entrepreneurs who wish to attend the
event can request an invitation on the summit’s official site; applying for the presentation is free and the deadline to register is June 20.
Open your free digital wallet here to store your cryptocurrencies in a safe place.
