Microsoft to Attend and Sponsor Ethereum’s Developer Conference DEVCON2
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has decided to sponsor and attend DEVCON2, Ethereum's developer conference that will be held in Shangai this year. Vitalik Buterin welcomed the endorsement from Microsoft and expressed its willingness to work together on future projects. DEVCON, the first Ethereum’s developer conference, received a new sponsor. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), the multinational IT company, announced its direct involvement in the event. DEVCON2 is the next ethereum developer and community gathering to take place, the event will be held at Shangai from 19 to 21 September. According to George....
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For the second year running, Microsoft will be the Premiere Sponsor of the Ethereum developer conference Devcon2 slated for Shanghai in September where the most up-to-date research and development work supported by the Ethereum Foundation will be showcased. Prime location in Shanghai. The Foundation is working with Wanxiang Blockchain Labs this year to jointly host their respective events during the International Blockchain Week at Hyatt on the Bund between September 19 and 24. This is based on their realization that both Ethereum’s Devcon1 and Wanxiang Blockchain Labs’ Global Blockchain....
Santander, one of the biggest global banks with almost 200,000 employees and yearly revenue of more than $12 billion announced today the gold sponsorship of Devcon2, one of the biggest event of the year in the blockchain space to be held in just over three weeks. The sponsorship follows Santander’s participation in the Universal Settlement Coin project, an Ethereum based private blockchain that turns fiat into digital cash with the aim of reducing costs and increasing speed. They join Microsoft, a premier sponsor, in supporting one of the biggest blockchain event of the year which,....
The world’s second largest blockchain network is set to host its annual developer conference this week. To be held in Shanghai, Devcon2 is expected to draw upwards of 700 attendees, with a lineup featuring many notable developers of the smart contract blockchain. On hand for talks and panels will be ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin, lead Casper developer Vlad Zamfir and creator of the Solidity programming language, Christian Reitwiessner. Also speaking are members of enterprise financial firms, including Microsoft and Thomson Reuters, with more rumored to be in attendance. Given the recent....
Santander bid to make history today as the first multinational bank to use ethereum’s public blockchain to transform central bank issued money into digital currency. One of the biggest bank in the world, Santander, aims to allow its customers to turn bank account funds into ethereum based tokens, starting a new stage in digital currencies and beginning a move towards mainstream use. They have been working with Roman Mandeleil, founder of ether.camp, for the past nine months, with the project now in testing on Ethereum’s Morden. The crowd erupted in enthusiastic applause upon hearing the....
Like any good movie, mission impossible music metaphorically came on last night around midnight London time, just hours before the opening of Devcon2, as Geth nodes – used by most of ethereum’s network – suddenly started crashing at block 2,283,416. Some villain, who presumably just wanted to see the world burn, had coded a smart contract asking everyone, in German, to Go Home, while everyone was asleep in Shanghai, resting for the big day. The Hyatt hotel must have been bombarded with phone calls around 4AM Shanghai time sending the impeccable development team, half asleep, to the war....