Ujo Music and BitPagos’ Ripio Among 31 Blockchain Projects to Demo in Shanghai
The biggest blockchain event to be held in just 9 days will feature a live demo of 31 projects according to ChainB, hosts of Demo Day. Among the projects is Ripio, a bitcoin wallet and brokerage service launched by Bitpagos operating mainly in Latin America where inflation is running as high as 40% in some countries, such as Argentina. They will demo Ripio Credit, which provides Bitpagos’ more than 30,000 users with access to credit and an easy way to transact online without a credit card. Ujo Music, one of the cooler projects which released Imogen Heap’s – Tiny Human – on ethereum’s....
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The blockchain ecosystem is to be on display in about three weeks during the International Blockchain Week when the blockchain world is expected to descend on Shanghai for one of the biggest event of the year, held by Wanxiang Blockchain Labs, where leading blockchain developers, entrepreneurs, visionaries, CEOs and directors of global companies are to present. The week-long event features Devcon2 which, according to George Hallam, External Relations at the Ethereum Foundation, is nearly sold out with only a few more tickets left, to be immediately followed by Demo Day and the Global....
BitPagos CEO and founder Sebastian Serrano recently announced a new feature for their bitcoin wallet, Ripio, at Techcrunch Disrupt New York 2016. In the past, BitPagos has become known in the Bitcoin community by enabling merchants in inflation-riddled countries, such as Serrano’s birthplace of Argentina, to convert credit card payments into bitcoins. They’ve often been referred to as the opposite of BitPay, which is a Bitcoin payment processor that allows merchants to convert bitcoin payments into local currency within one business day of the sale. BitPagos’ latest project is an attempt....
After an eventful and testing summer, Ethereum meets the upcoming new autumn season with a rise in price and confidence. A number of factors are seemly converging to create upwards pressure. The most prominent, Devcon2, is now in just over two weeks with many new projects expected to launch both in Shanghai and elsewhere. A flurry of activity is expected as China, which has already passed Fintech’s tipping point, is introduced to what seems to be a new stage in blockchain tech – proof of concept testing. The week-long blockchain event may be the biggest yet, with thirty projects to demo in....
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Five projects, selected by the Swarm, will be presenting at the world's first decentralized demo day in Silicon Valley on November 5th, starting at 7:00pm (PST). Join the world's most daring and disruptive innovators presenting their greatest ambitions and projects in the spotlight of the Silicon Valley underground. Swarm is a decentralized "Bitcoin 2.0" crowdfunding platform which raised one million USD in an exchange of Bitcoin for its own currency last July. The goal of Swarm is to support funding of innovative projects through decentralized means, rather than using traditional....