10-Day Bitcoin Festival BlockStock Starts Friday in London
This coming weekend and the following week will be an interesting time for Bitcoin users, fans and businesspeople to visit London. In addition to the Inside Bitcoins conference (disclosure: CoinTelegraph is a media partner for that event), there will also be an ongoing series of events around Shoreditch to bring Bitcoin use — and general awareness of the currency — to the average consumer. The latter festival, BlockStock (think “blockchain” + “Woodstock”), starts Friday evening and continues for 10 days in and around London’s Tech City. “When you go to all these Bitcoin meetups, it’s all....
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BlockStock, the UK's first Bitcoin festival, starts on Friday 12th September, in Shoreditch, to raise awareness of bitcoin as a digital currency. The ten-day festival is a celebration of Bitcoin as well as a series of events, activities, special offers, seminars and exhibitions interconnected with everyday high street businesses such as shops, pubs, bars, restaurants and cafes. Created by two Bitcoin enthusiasts and supported by the London Borough of Hackney, BlockStock takes place in the heart of Tech City, Europe's largest tech hub. Bitcoiners and those interested in Bitcoin will be able....
In a renowned tech-hub in London, people gathered to sip on alcohol, watch musical performance, and explore the world of digital currency. During “the festival where it pays to Bitcoin,” a number of restaurants, art galleries, and taverns sold goods for Bitcoin in the inner city district of Shoreditch. The 10 day festival, called BlockStock, just wrapped up last weekend. The ringleaders wanted to give locals to have an opportunity to taste the decentralized currency, which can be a bit different from presenting a credit card or paying with cash. Reading about Bitcoin in the newspapers is....
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