Bitcoin Foundation Welcomes Affiliates in Germany and The Netherlands
In a post published Tuesday on the Bitcoin Foundation blog, Affiliates Director at the Foundation Mark Woods today welcomed the Foundation's newest affiliates from Germany and The Netherlands. The first is Bundesverband Bitcoin (Germany) and Stichting Bitcoin Nederland (quite obviously, The Netherlands). "Home to some of the most active bitcoin communities, both Germany and the Netherlands have entire streets of local businesses that prefer to accept bitcoin. The town of Kreuzberg in Berlin made headlines in 2013 and a street in the Hague in the Netherlands has been dubbed 'Bitcoin....
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Already the Bitcoin Foundation has affiliates in Australia, Canada, Mexico, Germany, and the Netherlands (and more), and they now have another affiliate joining up from Bangladesh. It's the first affiliate in South Asia, making a total of seven affiliates in four continents (over a period of eight months). Impressive! It could very well pan out to be a great spot for bitcoin to grow and help the population with transferring money. Putting things into perspective, the World Bank said in an April press release that people in Bangladesh had received a whopping $14 billion in remittences from....
The Bitcoin Foundation has announced its first affiliate group in Asia, with Bitcoin Foundation Bangladesh becoming the latest local advocacy group to join its international network. The addition of Bangladesh means the Bitcoin Foundation has built an international chain of affiliates in just eight months. The newest member joins groups in Canada, Mexico, Australia, Germany, Denmark and Netherlands. The president of Bitcoin Foundation Bangladesh, Sazeeb (no last name given), said: "To be effective in positively improving lives, it's important we join together, align our goals, become....
The Bitcoin Foundation today announced its International Affiliate Program, along with the opening of a London office. As the organization hopes to promote bitcoin around the world, they're hoping to sign affiliates: "Bitcoin is an open source protocol with a global presence. We are experiencing rapid adoption worldwide and are excited to welcome Bitcoin Association of Australia and Bitcoin Foundation Canada as our first two affiliate chapters. In addition, we are engaged in talks with India and Argentina and have received strong interest for collaboration from countries like China,....
On Wednesday morning, the Bitcoin Foundation welcomed the Dansk Bitcoinfonening as their newest affiliate based out of Lyngby, north of Copenhagen, Denmark. This makes Dansk Bitcoinfonening one of several Bitcoin Foundation affiliating operating around the world today, with the other affiliate being based out of Australia, Canada, Germany, Mexico, and the Netherlands. The news comes following the declaration that profit gains/losses stemming from bitcoin trades be deemed tax free by the Tax Board of Denmark in March, with the exemption of businesses. The affiliate will be led by Pascal....
Following a weekend of solution seeking, collaboration and competition, the highlight of the Hackenergy 2016 event was a blockchain-fueled peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading system called EcoCoin, which grabbed top honors. Brendon Geils of the U.S., Simon Appel of Germany and Hodge Hodgson of Germany) built the blockchain-fueled P2P energy trading system on the open source Hyperledger blockchain managed by the Linux Foundation to win the hacking competition. International Turnout. Hackers from Germany, Spain, the U.S., the U.K. and the Netherlands attended the event, held in Groningen, an....