Shanghai Man: Blockchain Week with Vitalik still happening, ‘Bitcoin’ searche...
This weekly roundup of news from Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong attempts to curate the industrys most important news, including influential projects, changes in the regulatory landscape, and enterprise blockchain integrations.In this 30th edition of the Shanghai Man column, we preview the Wanxiang Shanghai Blockchain Week, an offline event that normally is the biggest blockchain conference on the Chinese calendar. Next week, despite all the regulatory crackdowns, the event is still planning to go ahead, albeit with a one-month delay from its usual place in mid-September.The flagship....
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The International Blockchain Week in Shanghai begins on September 19 and lasts through the 24th. This time around, the event is double-billed. Both Ethereum’s Devcon 2 and the Global Blockchain Summit will share the conference. Six Days of Blockchain Technology Hosted in Shanghai. International Blockchain Week consists of three key presentations,....
A busy first day of Blockchain Summit, part of International Blockchain Week in Shanghai, was filled with product demonstrations and discussions on security and regulation. Presenters included Joseph Lubin, founder of ConsenSys; Tim Swanson of R3; Feng Xiao, founder of conference sponsor Wangxiang Blockchain Labs; Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville of Circle; Josh Whelan of Santander and Tyler Smith of BHP Billiton. Here are some of the highlights. Vitalik Buterin Kicks It Off. Welcoming attendees, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin remarked on the growth in interest in blockchain since his....
This weekly roundup of news from Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong attempts to curate the industrys most important news, including influential projects, changes in the regulatory landscape, and enterprise blockchain integrations.This week, Wanxiang Blockchain hosted its annual Shanghai Blockchain Week, an event that usually brings together the government, enterprise, academic and degen side of the industry for a big celebration of how far decentralized technology has come. This year was a lot different, as the degens have been pushed out of the limelight by the recent spate of....
A small rise in Ethereum’s price has ended with a turn and a fall back to the starting point. Ethereum has once again returned back inside its flat. What will come next? ETH/USD. Following a meet-up with Vitalik Buterin in Shanghai, an intraday upward trend was formed. Ether’s price, after fortifying at the top limit of the long-term flat near $13, has formed an upward impulse toward the accumulated volume of sell orders near $14.5. As reported by Vitalik himself, the switch to PoS is preliminarily planned for summer 2017. The reason for such a long delay is; at the moment there are no....
Wanxiang Blockchain Labs, a Shanghai-based nonprofit research institution which hosted the first Global Blockchain Summit in Shanghai, is to lead an alliance of 11 regional commodity exchanges, equity exchanges and financial asset exchanges with the aim of creating “an open source blockchain protocol that developers can further build upon in the future” according to Bai Shuo, former chief engineer of the Shanghai Stock Exchange and director of the technology committee for the ChinaLedger Alliance. The Internet Securities Commission of the Securities Association of China (SAC), an....