Roger Ver, Bobby Lee Top Speaker List for China's Global Bitcoin Summit
Global Bitcoin Summit (GBS) 2014, an event billed as China's first global bitcoin conference, will be held from 10th-11th May in Beijing at the China National Convention Center. Speakers for the inaugural event include noted bitcoin investor Roger Ver. BTC China CEO Bobby Lee (billed as Nicholls Yuan); co-founder of Fire Coins Network Li Lin. Canadian Bitcoin Alliance director Anthony di Iorio. Ethereum founder Charles Hoskinson; and OKCoin founder Xu Star. Event organisers say the goal of GBS is to shed light on bitcoin's future in China and to promote digital currency innovation in the....
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While China has been making the Bitcoin headlines for all the wrong reasons lately, the Global Bitcoin Summit (GBS) 2014 in Beijing should help to reverse investor fears. China has been a vital part of the Bitcoin world since the digital currency’s inception. Recently though news about Bitcoin in China has been hovering around the recent crackdown of by the People’s Bank of China, although a few silver linings poke through every once in a while. This weekend, a lot of these situations and more will be addressed at the Global Bitcoin Summit 2014 (GBS) in Beijing. The summit appears as the....
If the recent issues surrounding bank account closures and domestic media warnings were supposed to scare Chinese attendees away from the two-day Global Bitcoin Summit starting in Beijing Saturday, someone forgot to tell everyone. The main 400-seat auditorium was regularly full on the first day for the event's keynote speakers, which included Roger Ver, Aaron Koenig of the Global Bitcoin Alliance, and Wang Wei of the Chinese Museum of Finance. The overall tone was not so much defiance, but apathy towards greater regulation. While Bobby Lee of BTC China was noticeably absent from the day's....
The state of Bitcoin in China is still up in the air. However, this spring will mark the first Bitcoin conference to take place in China. The Global Bitcoin Summit will be held in Beijing from May 10 to 11, and will be produced by Bitfund.pe and UBM China. Also supporting the event will be Bitcoin Magazine, which will serve as the event's Premier Media Sponsor. The two-day conference will shed light on future Bitcoin trends in China and provide the latest information in the industry. The Global Bitcoin Summit aims to provide the ideal platform to obtain insights for the current development....