CoinAgenda Announces Startup Competition Winners
This week, CoinAgenda organizers announced the final winners of the startup competition held at the Las Vegas conference on October 25-26. CoinAgenda Startup Competition Places Blockchain Business Ideas in Front of Potential Investors. The firms participating in this competition showcased their products and services, all of which utilize blockchain technology to solve existing problems or create new experiences and business opportunities not possible without the blockchain. Seventeen businesses competed, each giving 20-minute presentations to industry leaders and investors, including the....
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Indian bitcoin startup Zebpay has launched its new mobile wallet for the Android phone. The company's founders issued a statement regarding the wallet and its alleged ease of use, saying: "Zebpay is the world's first Bitcoin mobile wallet targeted at everyone, not just geeks... If you use popular instant messaging apps, then you already know how to use Zebpay... Once you download Zebpay you can simply send and receive bitcoins to anyone from your contact book. Really, that's all there is to it." Zebpay recently won the top prize at the CoinAgenda conference's startup competition. Founder....
This week at the CoinAgenda conference in Las Vegas, a group of leading cryptocurrency investors, experts, and entrepreneurs discussed ongoing trends in the Bitcoin and blockchain industries. At the center of this discussion was the rising “Appcoin” phenomenon, a topic which sits in murky legal waters. CoinAgenda Las Vegas 2016, organized and run by Michael Terpin, co-founder and chairman of BitAngels, was well received, with one prominent attendee claiming that “this was the best conference he had ever attended, period.” CoinAgenda will host its next conference in Puerto Rico in March....
The MIT Bitcoin Project has announced the winners of the first round of its BitComp competition, with three teams winning cash prizes. BitComp, which launched last month, is a small MIT-wide competition aimed at encouraging bitcoin innovation among students. The aim of the MIT Bitcoin Project is to make bitcoin more accessible to students at the noted Massachusetts educational institute, and raise awareness of the new technology. It will fully kick off later this fall, when each MIT undergraduate student will receive $100 in bitcoin. Rewarding innovation. In the competition, the MIT....
BitAngels has announced three winners of its global startup competition, the top two of which are set to showcase at the forthcoming Money 20/20 conference in an event called CoinDebut. India-based pre-launch mobile bitcoin wallet ZebPay received first place and best presentation. Austin, TX-based Factom, a 'proof of existence' technology for tracking and auditing documents through the block chain, placed second and was recognized for being the best pre-launch company; and Mountain View, California-based Rivetz, a developer of hardware-based security products for bitcoin and other....