PayPal Speaker Series Examines Good and Bad of Bitcoin
Online payments leader PayPal held an introduction to bitcoin event as part of its monthly TechXploration speaker series yesterday, packing hundreds into its Town Hall auditorium in San Jose, California. Attendees gathered for a deep, yet entertaining, session on how bitcoin works, overseen by the digital payments innovator that took the industry by storm in its early days with email-based money transfers. Leading the talk was Lorne Lantz, a developer and technical contributor for Andreas Antonopoulos' book 'Mastering Bitcoin'. While known principally as a payments solution, however, Lantz....
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