New Zealand's First Bitcoin Conference Coming in November
It's always interesting to learn about new bitcoin conferences taking place around the world. Today, we've learned about Bitcoin South, a crypto-currency conference that's slated to take place in Queenstown, New Zealand from November 29th - 30th. Here's a description of the event, as provided on the established website: Bitcoin South is New Zealand's first Cryptocurrency Conference. The aim is to bring international Bitcoin related companies, VC's and Speakers to New Zealand to showcase the industry to Keen New Zealand & Australian Entrepreneurs, Business owners and VC's. We want to make....
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Bitcoin South is designed to be a “Journey around the Block(chain)”. Bitcoin enthusiasts in New Zealand are in the process of putting together the country’s first official cryptocurrency conference, to be held at the Millenium Hotel in the southern resort town of Queenstown at the end of November. The event, dubbed Bitcoin South, will take place over November 29-30, 2014. The organizers have also stated that they are putting leisure packages together to make the conference exciting for international guests, including wine tours, golf tours, and adventure sport packages. So far, Bitcoin....
Fran Strajnar is a serial-entrepreneur. After having done the corporate circuit with some of New Zealand’s leading tech vendors as a BDM or Project Manager, he decided to work for himself and began experimenting with his own business ideas which included a bio-chemical startup as well as some dabbling in the electronic cigarettes market. One of his latest ventures in the pipeline is BTM Ltd. – a company that focuses on brining Bitcoin ATMs to New Zealand. He is also the founder of bravenewcoin.com, a popular Bloomberg-type resource for cryptocurrencies. Additionally, Fran is the organizer....
Note from the Author: Coming to you from the Bitcoin South Conference in Queenstown New Zealand that featured speakers like Andreas Antonopoulos and Jeffery Tucker. Please see (@Tone_LLT) for additional updates. Last week, we concluded with the following: This has been one of the less volatile weeks for Bitcoins’s price in a while. We have been consolidating around the 50-day SMA that currently sits around US$380. It is actually positive sign that we are consolidating and are mostly staying above the base of the Descending Triangle shown on the graph of the daily chart. Now that the....
New Zealand deputy governor Grant Spencer says New Zealand's central bank, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, is not threatened by Bitcoin, but is eventually planning to tighten regulation. In a speech delivered to the Payments New Zealand's premier industry conference on November 11 in Auckland, deputy governor Grant Spencer stated: "However," continued Spencer, "I do not doubt that future digital currencies will become more realistic substitutes for cash." "As the currency issuer, the Reserve Bank does not feel threatened by Bitcoin which seems to behave more like a commodity than a....
Source: Random House. In a dramatic move, New Zealand banned its first book in decades on Monday. The award-winning teen novel, Into The River, won the New Zealand Post children's book of the year in 2013 and includes portrayals of sex and bullying. Auckland-based author Ted Dawe did not see the ban coming. "It's extraordinary," Dawe told the New Zealand Herald. "I've had quite a few emails from people who share that sense of outrage. Do we live in a country where books get banned? I'll get burnt next." In the book, a Maori boy wins a scholarship to an exclusive Auckland boarding school....