Bitcoin Coinfest 2015 Ready to Hit a Record Dozen Cities Worldwide
It's that time of year again. February. Cold, dark, windy commutes to work. Slow news days in the world of sports. And the burgeoning global event that is the fourth-annual Coinfest, circa 2015. Last year, only three cities were in attendance. Yet, with the dramatic changes and growth in the Bitcoin industry just in 2014, Coinfest 2015 is set to be the largest Coinfest ever. It has now grown 300% to include one dozen cities worldwide in their annual winter Bitcoin awareness event. Coinfest: A small idea gone global. The idea behind Coinfest is surprisingly easy to implement on a global....
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CoinFest started in 2013 at Waves Coffee House, where the world's first Bitcoin ATM was later installed by CoinTrader. Non-profit and true to the open source movement, there has never been any patent or copyright associated. It grew from a hundred people gathered in Vancouver, to several hundred simultaneously across Canada, with awesome partners like the Decentralized Dance Party in 2014. Returning again in February in 2015, CoinFest has since spread to 25 cities around the world. CoinFest.org's funds are held in a multisignature wallet, with the funding scheduled to be distributed to....
A successful Coinfest event took place on March 20 in Kumasi, Ghana attracting crypto enthusiasts from all over the world. Similar events are also scheduled to be held in Tanzania and Botswana on March 27, with the latter expecting to receive Africa’s second Bitcoin ATM. Coinfest 2015 was supposed to welcome the participation of several African countries on the weekend of February 20 and 22. However, the Coinfest’s African counterparts have been pushed to March with one event already held in Kumasi on March 20 with others scheduled for March 27 in Gaborone, Botswana and Dar es Salaam,....
Last year, CoinFest hit a record of sixteen cities worldwide, firmly establishing its open source and decentralized convention model in the annals of cryptocurrency history. This was an exponential increase from only three events across Canada the year before, starting with just one in 2013. Now, over 30 cities are planning to host simultaneous events come April 5-10, making it potentially the biggest crypto event ever planned. Some organizers typically drop out before the convention starts, due to life circumstances, funding issues or other reasons, but with two months left until the....
CoinFest-the first decentralized convention about decentralized currencies-will be returning for 2016. Known for its open source and free-to-attend nature, as well as the cryptocurrency-only rule, the community decided to move the date from February to April. CoinFest is building off of the success of CoinFest 2015, when it spread from Canada to being a worldwide celebration. The CCFR brought the decentralized festival to Moscow and St. Petersburg, despite the ongoing Bitcoin ban in Russia. A blockchain-based registration system was demonstrated in Colombia and Ghana, and Mr. Bitcoin made....
When I first started organizing CoinFest, I never imagined what it would become. It used to be just a simple gathering of less than 100 Bitcoiners at Vancouver's famous Wave Coffee House, come together to celebrate the love of cryptocurrency. Not long after, the team behind CoinTrader brought the world's first Bitcoin ATM to the scene, and CoinFest gradually expanded into a decentralized convention across multiple venues. Now it's expanded around the world, spanning 7 cities and 5 languages so far, but as word of the movement spread, we were confronted with a lot of questions about how and....