American Banker Announces One-Day 'Bitcoin for Bankers' Conference
New York-based daily financial services newspaper American Banker has announced that it will hold a one-day conference this July aimed at bringing the traditional financial services industry up to speed with developments in the bitcoin and digital currency ecosystem. American Banker has been one of the more vocal mainstream publications on the subject of bitcoin, with Executive Editor Marc Hochstein even serving as MC and panel speaker at April's Inside Bitcoins NY conference. The event, to be held on 29th July in New York City, will focus on how bitcoin and digital currencies are....
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American Banker's second annual digital currencies conference was also its first to put an equal emphasis on the emerging opportunities posed by bitcoin's distributed ledger, the blockchain. The idea that conversation around the technology has altered drastically in the last year was first noted by American Banker editor in chief Marc Hochstein in the event's opening address. The talk proved forward-thinking in its praise for the promise of more expansive and experimental use cases for the blockchain while acknowledging that bitcoin, as its first application, had kickstarted a new wave of....
Former BitInstant CEO and noted bitcoin entrepreneur Charlie Shrem is set to give a talk at the upcoming American Banker Digital Currencies conference in New York on 29th July. His discussion, entitled "Bitcoin Pitfalls - And How To Avoid Them", will focus on Shrem's colorful history with bitcoin, while putting a special emphasis on the challenges facing innovators. Shrem's appearance at the conference in New York is notable considering his exit from Bitcoin in the Beltway late last month. Rumors that he was banned from the Washington, DC conference owing to legal problems were later....
Writing about the recent Inside Bitcoins conference in Tel Aviv, Coinapult Director Gabriel Sukenik reports that the Israeli tech community has very clearly identified blockchain technology as a crucial tool for future development. Bitcoin was seen as a clear and obvious inevitability, by all parties including politicians and central bankers. "There were speakers from Israeli Parliament as well as the Central Bank of Israel. I remember my jaw hitting the floor when I heard a Central Banker make reference to when Bitcoin becomes systematically valuable, just like the dollar or euro. Not if,....
One good turn deserves another. After the success of January’s North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami, a second such conference has been announced for July 19 and 20 in Chicago. The conference will be held at McCormick Place and will feature a number of speakers, including Roger Ver, Daniel Larimer of Bitshares, Tony Gallippi of BitPay. “Workshops targeted at merchants will act as a forum for vendors, exhibitors and recent Bitcoin startups to share their latest innovations and inform discussions,” organizers said in a statement. “Regulators, banks and government officials will be on....
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) president and CEO Dave McKay called bitcoin's underlying distributed ledger a "quantum innovation" during a roundtable discussion today. At the RBC Capital Markets conference in New York, McKay discussed RBC's ongoing experimentations with the blockchain, stating that the bank may seek to launch a loyalty program that uses the technology sometime in 2016, American Banker reports. In his remarks, McKay indicated he believes the bank's experiments with the blockchain need to be introduced with "caution", echoing statements made by the US Securities and Exchange....