IBM Offers Bitcoin at the Annual Campus Party
Campus Party is an annual technology festival where thousands of “campuseros” (hackers, developers, gamers and geeks) equipped with laptops camp on-site and immerse themselves in a truly unique environment. Campus Party unites the brightest minds under the idea that the Internet is not a network of computers; it’s a network of people. Campus Party is already recognized as the biggest electronic entertainment event online in the world. Campus Party 2015 (CPBR8), in São Paulo Expo in Brasil will be the acting grounds for a special event promoted and supported by a wide number of big....
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Campus London's "BTM" (bitcoin teller machine). Google's Campus London is a seven-floor building based in the UK dedicated to encouraging "innovation through collaboration, mentorship, and networking". The building was designed for entrepreneurs and startups "on their quest to change the world". According to Google, "Google began life as a startup in a garage in California. Campus allows us to help entrepreneurs grow and find success in a better garage. Our success will be measured by the success of the startups who use Campus. Campus allows UK technology startups to meet at a central....
The first annual Blockchain Madness, a live-streamed cross-campus student trivia tournament hosted by the Blockchain Education Network, starts March 15. Six teams of blockchain and Bitcoin all-stars from elite universities across North America will compete in this year’s tournament, fighting for the Blockchain Cup and prestige. Teams from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University and the University of California-Berkeley representing the United States will battle it out against three Canadian teams from the University of Toronto, Wilfrid Laurier University and Queen’s....
On March 5th and 6th, the MIT Bitcoin Club is hosting its annual Bitcoin Expo in the Samberg Conference Center on the MIT campus. It is the largest annual project undertaken by the club and is one of the only academic Bitcoin conferences run entirely by students. World-renowned speakers will be in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the event, including Shual Kfir, CTO of Digital Asset Holdings; Joseph Poon, co-author of the Lightning Network; and Jonas Schnelli, one of the Bitcoin Core developers. The club's mission is to “provide forums where Bitcoin-related ideas, projects, programs, events,....
Students at the Burnaby Mountain campus of Simon Fraser University in Canada could soon have the opportunity to pay for on-campus purchases with bitcoin, if officials at the University give a pilot project a seal of approval, reports News1130. As soon as this upcoming Fall semester, students may be able to pay for things like food and books using digital currency, which could even open the door to bitcoin ATMs being installed on the campus down the line. "We're looking to fully integrate into the SFU bookstores," said Michael Yeung, who's spearheading the project. Yeung also heads the....
The Liberal Alliance will be utilizing a blockchain to conduct internal votes at an annual meeting. 2014 has been the year that banks and politicians are falling over themselves to warn against Bitcoin, even while calling the technology promising. Denmark, however, set itself apart from the crowd last month by declaring digital currency trades to be tax-free. Yesterday there was more Bitcoin-friendly news from Denmark; the Liberal Alliance will be the first major political party in the world to vote using blockchain technology. First reported by Version2.dk, Liberal Alliance will be using....