First Latin American Bitcoin Conference Set to Take Place in Argentina

A lineup of 40 expert speakers will highlight the third annual Latin American Bitcoin Conference (LaBitCOnf2015) Dec. 4 and 5 at EBC Campus Dinamarca in Mexico City. The conference is expected to host 250 attendees from 15 countries. The conference goal is to jumpstart bitcoin innovation in Latin America and encourage entrepreneurs to create applications for bitcoin and block chain technology, according to Rodolfo Andragnes, conference organizer. He said the agenda will include topics for entrepreneurs developing applications and for finance sector professionals. Mexico is easily....

The third annual Latin American Bitcoin Conference takes place this week in the beautiful and bustling Mexico City on December 4th and 5th. With over forty speakers, some of the world’s most influential bitcoiners will discuss technology behind Bitcoin, and give advice to startups, opine on the pace of global Bitcoin adoptions, merchant tools, nation state-related compliance and more. At the conference, you can hear from the author of Mastering Bitcoin, Andreas Antonopoulos; ShapeShift CEO Erik Vorhees; the host of the Bitcoin Knowledge podcast, Trace Mayer; the Editor-In-Chief of Adamant....

The second annual Latin American Bitcoin Conference took place in Rio de Janeiro this weekend, drawing 37 speakers and more than 200 attendees from 6th to 7th December. The wide range of speakers at the event included bitcoin core developer Jeff Garzik, BitPay's Toni Gallippi, BitGive's Connie Gallippi, Bitreserve's Juan Llanos and Ethereum's Anthony Di Iorio. Latin America provided a complex backdrop for the event, as many countries in the region face a mixture of social, political and economic pressures. In turn, bitcoin development has been impacted by this uncertainty, even as Brazil....

After three long years, the Latin American Bitcoin and Blockchain Conference (laBITconf) returned to Buenos Aires, Argentina, for its fourth annual edition. While many of the cryptoworld conferences around the world have became more and more business oriented, the Latin American event has managed to retain the spirit of the good old days. Over 35 speakers from across the world attracted an audience of more than 350 people to listen to some of the most prominent figures within the Bitcoin ecosystem. Hot topics such as the blocksize debate, Bitcoin price, regulatory environment, mining, and....

Argentina has seen such strong growth in bitcoin transactions, owing mostly to the high inflation and capital controls imposed by the government that led people to pursue alternative methods of moving funds around. With that, Buenos Aires has been chosen to host the first-ever Latin America bitcoin conference. The forum was co-sponsored by Bitcoin Argentina and Bitcoin Latin America and was held in the Buenos Aires government's brand new auditorium last July 31. The event also included live streaming from other conferences held simultaneously at the Virtual Currencies in the Financial and....