Announcing Consensus 2015: A Summit on Digital Currencies and Blockchain Technologies
Digital currencies and blockchain technologies cut across numerous sectors, with the potential to impact everyone from the suits on Wall Street to the world's unbanked. We want to drive the conversation forward by connecting the doers and thinkers in those sectors - global development and aid, civic technology, government and policy-making, financial services and more - with the technologists, entrepreneurs and investors at the heart of the digital currency world. To do that, we're launching our first conference: Consensus 2015 at the TimesCenter in New York City on 10th September.....
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