Analyzing The ₿ Word Virtual Conference

The B Word Bitcoin conference was a travesty of discourse that failed to advance the conversation on Bitcoin as a technology in any meaningful way.

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) will soon have the power to ban blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT), come January 1, 2018. Speaking at a London conference called “Blockchain Technology: The Future for Financial Services”, last week, senior ‘risk analysis’ officer Patrick Armstrong spoke [PDF] about the challenges and opportunities with blockchain technology. Armstrong is a part of the Innovation and Products team at ESMA, the Paris-based EU financial regulatory authority that establishes legislation and regulation for European financial markets. The....

Over the course of next week, the European Parliament will host a four-day conference in an effort to educate members of the European Parliament about distributed ledgers and virtual currencies. A non-commercial conference organized next week by the European Parliament is being put together to educate Members of European Parliament (MEPs) about the rapidly expanding and publicized fintech space. The conference and exhibition will specifically be focusing on blockchain and virtual currencies. As reported by Finextra, the conference will see representatives from the likes of the World Bank,....

(This is a two-part series on the metaverse and how it is creating so much fuss in the internet) Ah, the metaverse. For the untrained gray matter, the word may sound like it’s been concocted out of some sci-fi novel.  The metaverse is making a lot of noise in the virtual stratosphere. Some say it […]

BitFin Conference in Dublin's RDS. I was recently tasked by CCN with attending the BitFin conference in Dublin, Ireland. Some of the discussions were interesting, some less so, some were like swimming through cold porridge. One of the most interesting was, in my opinion, given by Gareth Murphy, of the Central Bank of Ireland, he is the director with responsibility for markets supervision, this includes the regulation of Irish securities markets as well as supervising the funds, stockbroking and investment management industries. He is described on the Central Bank site as a member of the....