Emerging Startups Take Stage at Latin American Bitcoin Conference 2014

Emerging Startups Take Stage at Latin American Bitcoin Conference 2014

The second annual Latin American Bitcoin Conference took place in Rio de Janeiro this weekend, drawing 37 speakers and more than 200 attendees from 6th to 7th December. The wide range of speakers at the event included bitcoin core developer Jeff Garzik, BitPay's Toni Gallippi, BitGive's Connie Gallippi, Bitreserve's Juan Llanos and Ethereum's Anthony Di Iorio. Latin America provided a complex backdrop for the event, as many countries in the region face a mixture of social, political and economic pressures. In turn, bitcoin development has been impacted by this uncertainty, even as Brazil....


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