Among the principal speakers were Jon Matonis, Founding
Director at Bitcoin Foundation, Kaspar Korjus, e-Residency Managing Director, Karolina Marzantowicz, Distinguished Engineer at Polish branch of IBM, Kaidi Ruusalepp, Founder of Funderbeam, plus 14 more crypto experts and blockchain project managers.
According to the organizers, participation in the conference is already confirmed by Eric Benz, the Managing
Director at the Bitcoin debit cards issuing company Cryptopay, Frank Schuil, CEO at Safello bitcoin exchanges and Karolina Marzantowich, the Leading Developer of Polish branch of IBM.
According to Raymond Kaptich, a civil engineer and
director at a bitcoin trading club, argues that most investments have an element of risk and claiming bitcoin is a conduit for illegal activities is far from the truth.
Not exact matches
«This technological innovation must be allowed to develop, be rolled out and tested in real environments without material interference or overburdening regulations, especially
at the initial stages of its adoption,» Llew Claasen, executive
director of the
Bitcoin Foundation, a non-profit advocacy group, wrote in a Nov. 30 letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
«If
Bitcoin is successful, the opportunity I have, my son will not have, and definitively, my son's son will not have,» says Martin Garcia, managing
director at Genesis Trading, the only licensed U.S. broker - dealer for
Bitcoin.
«
Bitcoin now is testing a very important downtrend line, the same one that the Cryptocurrency failed
at in January and again in March (on a log scale),» Frank Cappelleri, executive
director, institutional equities
at Nomura Instinet, said in a note.
Some 19
Bitcoin forks came out last year — but up to 50 more could happen this year, according to Lex Sokolin, global
director of fintech strategy
at Autonomous Research.
Forward - thinking merchants of all sizes around the world are glomming onto the hot
Bitcoin payments trend, many of them to cut costs and boost their bottom line, says Adam White,
director of business development and strategy
at Coinbase.
«First we'd look
at their technical contributions to
Bitcoin,» says Brian Forde,
Director of the DCI.
Peter Van Valkenburgh, the
director of research
at Coin Center, a
bitcoin and cryptocurrency nonprofit, said in an earlier interview that investors need to scrutinize each company hosting an ICO.
- + * As part of the Digital Currency Council's Continuing Education partnership with Inside
Bitcoins, the DCC's
Director of Curriculum, Dan McArdle, has had the opportunity to interview the thought leaders that will be speaking
at Inside
Bitcoins Berlin on March 5 - 6.
* + - As part of the Digital Currency Council's Continuing Education partnership with Inside
Bitcoins, the DCC's
Director of Curriculum, Dan McArdle, has had the opportunity to interview the thought leaders that will be speaking
at Inside
Bitcoins Singapore on January 29 - 30.
* + - As part of the Digital Currency Council's Continuing Education partnership with Inside
Bitcoins, the DCC's
Director of Curriculum Dan McArdle, had the opportunity to interview the thought leaders that will be speaking
at the Inside
Bitcoins Conference in New York City on April 27 - 29, 2015.
Not only does BitPay's service make business sense, but we are excited about giving owners of
bitcoin the opportunity to inexpensively and reliably convert any excess holdings into precious metals rather than back to fiat currency,» said Michael Finger,
Director of Marketing
at Euro Pacific Precious Metals.
Earlier this year, Tomicah Tillemann, Trust Accelerator co-founder and New America
director of the Bretton Woods II program, commented about Georgia's decision to use the public
Bitcoin Blockchain: «If you think about this happening
at a time when a lot of people are struggling to separate what's real from what's fake, this is a powerful tool to prove what's real.
«It's undeniable that a celebrity endorsement brings a new audience into the world of crypto currencies,» said Peter Van Valkenburgh, the
director of research
at Coin Center, a nonprofit that advocates for
Bitcoin and related technology.
Petar Zivkovski,
director of operations
at full - service
bitcoin trading platform Whaleclub, told CoinDesk that a short squeeze helped fuel
bitcoin's price rally.
At a conference held in Mumbai, India on Nov. 6, 2017, RBI executive
director, S Ganesh Kumar, has hinted that the digital currencies such as
Bitcoin and Ethereum will not be allowed to be legally used across the country.
«
Bitcoin trading volume is flat,» Petar Zivkovski, director of operations at full - service bitcoin trading platform Whaleclub, told CoinDesk at th
Bitcoin trading volume is flat,» Petar Zivkovski,
director of operations
at full - service
bitcoin trading platform Whaleclub, told CoinDesk at th
bitcoin trading platform Whaleclub, told CoinDesk
at the time.
Any attempt to regulate cryptocurrencies such as
Bitcoin must be on a global scale as national or regional rules would be hard to enforce on a virtual, borderless community, a
director at Germany's central bank said on Monday.
«The uniqueness of our operating system is that Overledger is not another blockchain,» Quant Chief Strategist and Executive
Director of the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technology
at University College London, Paolo Tasca, told
Bitcoin Magazine.
At a banking event, RBI executive
director Ganesh Kumar said that the organization won't be using
bitcoins anytime soon.
Dominique Bourrinet, Legal
Director at Société Générale group, and Etienne Mauret, responsible for the payment methods and banking products, published an article about the legal status of
bitcoin currency in which they argue that international regulation is needed for the digital currency.
«For the past two years, the
Bitcoin community has been obsessing with scale and scalability,» Kevin Loaec, managing
director at Chainsmiths and co-organizer of the event, told
Bitcoin Magazine.
Michael Hunte,
director of community operations
at DFINITY, predicted
Bitcoin will be valued
at $ 16,000 by mid-2018 but did not credit those gains to successfully navigating near - term challenges.
Each new cryptocurrency that comes forward benefits from the groundwork that
bitcoin advocates have already done, said Mastercoin Foundation executive
director Ron Gross, speaking
at the Future of Money and Technology Summit in San Francisco.
Tim Enneking, managing
director at hedge fund Crypto Asset Management, believes
bitcoin gold proves fork currencies will likely have diminishing returns from here on out.
Director at Global Advisors
Bitcoin Investment Fund PLC Daniel Masters says the strong fundamentals of bitcoin helped push Global Advisors and GABI towards listin
Bitcoin Investment Fund PLC Daniel Masters says the strong fundamentals of
bitcoin helped push Global Advisors and GABI towards listin
bitcoin helped push Global Advisors and GABI towards listing GABI.
Other speakers
at the workshop include Matt Corallo, a longtime
Bitcoin developer who is pioneering work on sidechains; Gavin Andresen, an original
Bitcoin Core developer and chief scientist
at the
Bitcoin Foundation; and Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin and currently
Director of Engineering
at Coinbase.
Petar Zivkovski,
director of operations
at Whaleclub, told CoinDesk about how trader sentiment changed after
bitcoin's sharp rise pushed it above $ 440 on 20th April.
«These products are designed to allow
bitcoin traders, companies and other users to rely on a credible reference rate price source,» Sandra Ro, CME Group executive
director, said
at the time.
Lee was a former
Director of Engineering
at Coinbase Just like its elder brother
Bitcoin, Litecoin allows people to send funds digitally using the Blockchain technology.
In March of the coming year blockchain developers and entrepreneurs will get together
at Blockchain &
Bitcoin Conference Tallinn to listen to the founding
director of
Bitcoin Foundation, fintech columnist with Forbes Magazine Jon Matonis.
«As part of our educational campaign, we push
Bitcoin Cash — the real
Bitcoin — because as
Bitcoin users, we actually believe that this is the true and real
Bitcoin as it was supposed to be,» Eilon Arad,
director of business development
at CoinPoint, told CalvinAyre.com.
With the cryptocurrency's recent price gains,
bitcoin mining has become more attractive, according to John Stoll, managing
director of customer utilities
at Chelan Public Utility District (PUD).
The Financial Systems
Director at Bank of Mexico (Banco de México abbreviated Banxico), Jesús Alan Elizondo Flores, said that the Law Regulating the Financial Technology Institutions (FinTech Law), proposes that banks and electronic payment establishments will operate virtual assets, such as the
bitcoin, among other cryptocurrencies.
In her comparison between
bitcoin and ether, Prableen Bajpai, Founding
Director at FinFix, outlined the differences between them as follows:
Contacted by the Daily News regarding the threat brought about by the adoption of digital currencies to the regions resolve to have a single currency, Mr. Bernard Dadi, the
Director of National Payment System
at the Bank of Tanzania (BoT), confirmed that plans to have a single currency for the EAC block were still ongoing even though cryptocurrencies such as
bitcoin pose a challenge.
David Parrott, payment services
director at Jagex, said, «An advantage of
bitcoin is that it is still new and shiny enough to generate interest in the payment experience simply through the fact that it exists.
The Consumers» Research Executive
Director Joe Colangelo unveiled a new blockchain whitepaper titled «Bretton Woods 2015: the Promise of
Bitcoin and the Blockchain»
at the North American
Bitcoin Conference held in Miami on Friday, January 22nd, 2016.
On one hand, there's Charley Cooper, managing
director at blockchain consortium R3CEV, who suggested that moving away from the «founding principles of
bitcoin» to a focus on blockchain and distributed ledger technology is the right approach.
«It is no longer a question of whether such currencies, including
Bitcoin, should be regulated or not, but rather who will be doing the regulating,» said Nicolene Schoeman - Louw, the Managing
Director at SchoemanLaw.
The five original
directors were all established
Bitcoin business leaders, who received their spots automatically, essentially simply because they were in the right place
at the right time.
According to Hadley Stern, the managing
director and senior vice president
at research and development wing of Fidelity Labs, the ledger technology underlying
bitcoin transactions are still
at its nascent stage and it will take considerable amount of time before the same receives mass acceptability.
Prior to founding Keynote Events, Levin was
director of European business development
at BitPay and ran large
Bitcoin conferences in North America.
Daniel Masters is the former head of energy trading
at JP Morgan and the
director of the Jersey - based hedge fund, Global Advisors
Bitcoin Investment Fund Plc..
Lex Sokolin, global
director of finch strategy
at Autonomous Research LLP in London state that «the altcoins today, in large part, are not trying to be
bitcoin competitors.
Spencer is Managing
Director of Spencer & Associates, a corporate criminal defense firm, and General Counsel
at Coinsource, the world's largest
bitcoin ATM network.
«I would consider the same standards of safeguards for a
Bitcoin wallet as I would for a mobile banking app,» said Jared Nishikawa,
director of immersive programs
at SecureSet, a Denver - based cybersecurity academy.
At a financial committee hearing, FSC
director Choi admitted that several officials within the agency committed insider trading by obtaining knowledge about the Justice Ministry's statement prior to its release and selling
bitcoin immediately before the statement was introduced to the public.