Manhattan Community Board Bans Bitcoin Block Party
The City of New York is following the same path as the state in trying to use regulation to push Bitcoin into obscurity. A Manhattan Community Board ruled that a Bitcoin decentralization block party would be refused permits. The block party was a co-venture between GMT Tavern, a bar and restaurant located in Greenwich Village in Manhattan, and Cut Rush Creative Labs, a Brooklyn-based film production company that specializes in promoting virtual currencies and decentralized solutions through visual media. When the State of New York proposed the BitLicense, Ben Lawsky promised that it would....
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The Manhattan Community Board No. 2 (which covers the Greenwich Village, SoHo, NoHo, Chinatown and Little Italy area) unanimously refused permits for the Bitcoin Block Party, otherwise known as the "Decentralized Hip Hop Skateboard Block Party." The block party, being planned for this Spring, is a coming together of the GMT Tavern, a bar and restaurant in the Village, and Cut Rush Creative Labs, a production company based in Brooklyn that supports the development of cryptocurrencies. It will be free and open to the public with many vendors, merchants and cryptocurrency developers to walk....
When it comes to bitcoin and digital currency, New York hasn't always held the greatest appeal. Controversy has been wandering about ever since the introduction of the BitLicense, and now it appears that the island of Manhattan is striking another negative chord. A Manhattan-based Community board has ruled that a bitcoin decentralization party will be refused permits. The party is a joint venture between the restaurant GMT Tavern and a film production company known as Cut Rush Creative Labs, and both groups were aiming to support bitcoin and its usage. Cut Rush Creative's Van Nguyen....
The Barcelona Bitcoin Community has come up with a fun way to mark the forthcoming Bitcoin block reward halving slated for July 10 - a party. The point is to celebrate an informal meetup to meet other bitcoiners, have lots of discussions, eat BBQ food, the cryptocurrency interest group states on its Meetup.com page. “My opinion: Let’s celebrate what happens for sure: halving. Have a good time together!” says one of the event’s organizers, Manfred Karrer, the creator of Bitsquare, one of the first decentralized exchanges for Bitcoin. “What happens with price is out of our reach and should....
They've also brought in a Goldman Sachs veteran to lead Block One's advisory board. Google Cloud has joined the EOS blockchain community with the intent of becoming a block producer. This would require approval of the EOS community. EOS, which has often been criticized for excessive centralization, has 21 block producers in total. In the company's press release, Google Cloud developer and advocate, Allen Day, is quoted confirming that his company is starting the process of becoming a block producer:As organizations begin to incorporate distributed ledger technology into their....
The College Cryptocurrency Network is organizing a bitcoin and blockchain hackathon next month for students across the world. The Borderless Block Party will be a month long party beginning November 1, 2015 where students will get to build new blockchain based products using various available decentralized technologies and toolkits. In order to participate in the Borderless Block Party, there is one simple prerequisite - the participant has to be a student who is currently enrolled in courses, be it high school, university or even an online degree. Students can enroll for the contest....