Reinvent.Money Takes Place September 26 In Rotterdam
Reinvent.Money is an upcoming conference taking place at Erasmus University in Rotterdam this weekend. During this one-day event, the future of our monetary system will take center stage. Entrepreneurs and industry experts from all corners of the financial world will share their ideas and vision for the future. Bitcoin and blockchain technology will be a hot topic of conversation during this conference. Even though Reinvent.Money is a one-day event, the schedule of speakers is jam-packed with interesting people. After a word of welcome by Paul Buitink, who runs a podcast on monetary....
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Many great guests are speaking at the event including RT hosts/journalists Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert. The conference held in the Netherlands will be English-spoken and have a great line up at a reasonable price. Discussions about the state of Europe, the euro and Greece will be told with solutions such as Bitcoin, distributed ledger technology and....
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A lot of people, including mainstream media outlets, still think that Bitcoin is all about reinventing the way we use money around the world. Even though the underlying blockchain technology has the potential to disrupt the monetary ecosystem as we know it, there is no need to reinvent money right now. However, the financial ecosystem needs a technology....
Communities throughout the Netherlands have embraced the idea of physical and digital alternative currencies, a local newspaper reported over the weekend. According to the Financieele Dagblad, Amsterdam, Nijmegen, Arnhem and Rotterdam have all seen currency alternatives to the euro catch on. In Rotterdam, in fact, there are two: the zuiderling and the dam. Both of those exist as digital currencies, though there are printed zuiderlings in circulation. Both currencies have become useful at the community level as forms of payment, especially for services, according the financial newspaper.