Jeremy Allaire: 'Bitcoin Needs Greater Governance to Reach Mass Adoption'
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire gave the opening keynote address at Inside Bitcoins New York on 7th April as part of a talk entitled 'Mainstreaming Bitcoin: The Next Phase of Digital Currency Growth & Value Creation'. The two-day conference will feature a number of notable speakers from the industry, including Blockchain's Nicolas Cary, GoCoin's Steve Beauregard and Kraken's Jesse Powell, and is expected to draw roughly 1,000 attendees. The second annual Inside Bitcoins New York conference and expo kicked off on 7th April with a keynote address from Circle CEO and founder Jeremy Allaire that....
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Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire has called on bitcoin's core developers to "step up" and create a more open, inclusive and well-defined process for the protocol's development. Describing the current state of development as "very ad-hoc, reputation based" and unwelcoming to new participants, he said that the amount of money being invested into bitcoin demanded "a more well-defined governance process and contribution process". "The whole industry should be contributing to the IP of bitcoin," Allaire told CoinDesk ahead of the Bitcoin Finance 2014 conference in Dublin on 2nd July. "The reality is....
Jeremy Allaire is already pretty well known in the tech world, having played an integral part in the creation of ColdFusion, the Macromedia MX (Flash) platform, and online video platform Brightcove. However, he just stepped even further into the limelight. Allaire is now heading up a new company called Circle, which aims to take the bitcoin market by storm. It's made a mighty good start, too, having secured $9m in Series A funding - the largest amount ever raised by a bitcoin company. CoinDesk spoke to Allaire to find out what Circle is all about, where the name came from and just what,....
The bitcoin community eagerly awaits the results of a government bitcoin auction that took place on Friday. Circle Internet Financial, a Boston-based company headed by Jeremy Allaire, is one of a number of different entities that participated in said bitcoin auction, held by the United States Marshals Service. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal on Monday, Allaire suggested that the auction could cause a short-term drop in the price of bitcoin, but looking at the charts this morning, we're looking at a high of $639 at Bitstamp and settled at $615 at the time of this writing. "The....
Next month, DevCore Boston launches a series of roundtables sponsored by Bitcoin Foundation for developers interested in deepening their technical expertise to support the future development of Bitcoin Core. The roundtable will be on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015 and will run from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at District Hall, 75 Northern Ave. in Boston, Mass. Circle Internet Financial, led by Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville and based in Boston, is the event's Title Sponsor. Also read: Bitcoin Foundations February. Bitcoin Foundation Chief Scientist Gavin Andresen to Give Keynote at Boston DevCore.....