Charlotte Bitcoin Expo Welcomes KeepKey, Gyft and Additional Sponsors, Media Partners
With one week to go before opening its doors in Uptown Charlotte, the Second Annual Cryptolina Bitcoin Expo has announced several additional speakers, sponsors and media partners to the lineup.
With one week to go before opening its doors in Uptown Charlotte, the Second Annual Cryptolina Bitcoin Expo has announced several additional speakers, sponsors and media partners to the lineup. Leading sponsors and partners include KeepKey, a leading private bitcoin vault service, and Gyft - a mobile gift card company backed by Google Ventures. A partial list of partners and sponsors that have been recently added include:
- PayCLT
- SightSpan
- Swapper.io
- BitGo
- Comptegrity
- Dunvegan Space Systems
- OpenBazaar
- Bit-Basics
- Triangle Career Development
- Airbitz Inc.
- Netki, Inc.
- Mycelium
- Finmaps
- The Paypers
- WeSellCrypto
- Black Widow Web Development
Todd Erickson, a member of the Bitcoin Foundation and a senior vice president with a local credit union was selected to service as the Master of Ceremonies for the conference.
Taking place August 14th and 15th at the Historic McGlohon Theater at Spirit Square in Uptown Charlotte, the two-day conference is a sequel to last summer's inaugural expo in Raleigh that attracted over 350 digital currency developers, investors and regulators from across the United States and Europe. The conference is also hosting a Virtual Currency and Blockchain Technology Compliance Workshop on Friday August 14, beginning at 9:00am.
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