Ben Lawsky to Deliver Bitcoin Keynote at Money20/20
New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) superintendent Benjamin Lawsky is to deliver a keynote speech at Money20/20, which bills itself as the world's largest event for payments and financial services innovation. Lawsky will take part in the conference's (Bit)coinWorld section and will be one of the star speakers on the subject of cryptocurrencies. Money20/20's organisers say they are big supporters of cryptocurrencies and their underlying distributed payment protocols. Additionally, as bitcoin generated a lot of interest at last year's event, they decided to launch....
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