Shanghai Man: Inside Blockchain Week’s private parties, Vitalik’s speech, and...
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....
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A new group is focusing on promoting blockchain tech in Shanghai. Calling itself the Shanghai Industrial Development Blockchain Alliance, the group is seeking to turn the city into a regional hub for the technology. According to a press release announcing the organization, members include the Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Research Institute, Wanxiang Blockchain Lab and Hyperledger member BitSE. The group's origins date back to earlier this summer when discussions between the Shanghai government and members of the local blockchain sector began. BitSE CEO DJ Qian told CoinDesk:....
Shanghai residents are using the blockchain to record and preserve memories of their city’s month-long COVID-19 lockdown, minting movies, images, and artwork as non-fungible Tokens (NTFs) that may be shared and recalled. Shanghai Residents Adopt NFTs To Store Memories Residents of Shanghai, China’s largest city with a population of more than 25 million people, are […]
In an effort to bring blockchain enthusiasts together for the sake of innovation, Wanxiang Blockchain Labs and Deloitte hosted the Shanghai Blockchain Hackathon on the weekend of January 8. Over the course of two days, teams of blockchain experts came together to create projects worthy of cash prizes. The CargoChain team developed the winning idea, taking home the $30,000 grand prize. “My partner (John Freeman) and I created CargoChain, which digitalizes international trade with specific focus on the bill of lading,” said Dominik Schiener, a member of the winning team. “CargoChain places....
Financial commerce, the exchange of money and currency, is indistinguishable from speech. Therefore, it deserves the exact same respect and "freedom of speech" protections afforded to the utterances of the street-corner preacher, the independent journalist, the newspaper publisher, the internet blogger and so on. Financial commerce is speech, and should be free. "Freedom of Speech" by xoxolaxbabexoxo at deviantart. Despite all of the "freedom of speech" and "free speech" talk we hear, speech today is anything but free. This ranges from what you can and can't say in public or in print or on....