New Zealand's First Cryptocurrency Conference Bitcoin South to be held November 29-30
Bitcoin South is designed to be a “Journey around the Block(chain)”. Bitcoin enthusiasts in New Zealand are in the process of putting together the country’s first official cryptocurrency conference, to be held at the Millenium Hotel in the southern resort town of Queenstown at the end of November. The event, dubbed Bitcoin South, will take place over November 29-30, 2014. The organizers have also stated that they are putting leisure packages together to make the conference exciting for international guests, including wine tours, golf tours, and adventure sport packages. So far, Bitcoin....
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It's always interesting to learn about new bitcoin conferences taking place around the world. Today, we've learned about Bitcoin South, a crypto-currency conference that's slated to take place in Queenstown, New Zealand from November 29th - 30th. Here's a description of the event, as provided on the established website: Bitcoin South is New Zealand's first Cryptocurrency Conference. The aim is to bring international Bitcoin related companies, VC's and Speakers to New Zealand to showcase the industry to Keen New Zealand & Australian Entrepreneurs, Business owners and VC's. We want to make....
Fran Strajnar is a serial-entrepreneur. After having done the corporate circuit with some of New Zealand’s leading tech vendors as a BDM or Project Manager, he decided to work for himself and began experimenting with his own business ideas which included a bio-chemical startup as well as some dabbling in the electronic cigarettes market. One of his latest ventures in the pipeline is BTM Ltd. – a company that focuses on brining Bitcoin ATMs to New Zealand. He is also the founder of bravenewcoin.com, a popular Bloomberg-type resource for cryptocurrencies. Additionally, Fran is the organizer....
Note from the Author: Coming to you from the Bitcoin South Conference in Queenstown New Zealand that featured speakers like Andreas Antonopoulos and Jeffery Tucker. Please see (@Tone_LLT) for additional updates. Last week, we concluded with the following: This has been one of the less volatile weeks for Bitcoins’s price in a while. We have been consolidating around the 50-day SMA that currently sits around US$380. It is actually positive sign that we are consolidating and are mostly staying above the base of the Descending Triangle shown on the graph of the daily chart. Now that the....
Editor’s Note: This article has been changed to make the nature of the Bitcoin Africa Conference more clear. The name of this title is “Bitcoin Africa Conference,” and this is the first time the conference has been held. The author of this article was not saying that this Bitcoin conference is the very first one in Africa. We apologize for any misunderstanding. As you may know, the world’s first Bitcoin Africa Conference will be held on April 16-17, 2015 in Cape Town, South Africa. With all the buzz surrounding Bitcoin in Africa lately, it is no surprise that the first conference has made....
New Zealand deputy governor Grant Spencer says New Zealand's central bank, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, is not threatened by Bitcoin, but is eventually planning to tighten regulation. In a speech delivered to the Payments New Zealand's premier industry conference on November 11 in Auckland, deputy governor Grant Spencer stated: "However," continued Spencer, "I do not doubt that future digital currencies will become more realistic substitutes for cash." "As the currency issuer, the Reserve Bank does not feel threatened by Bitcoin which seems to behave more like a commodity than a....