Consensus 2015, CoinDesk’s inaugural conference, was held in New York last week. The event featured a wide range of speakers, including prominent figures from the crypto space, traditional finance, law enforcement and aid sector who engaged in a wide range of discussion topics; including the potential use-cases for bitcoin and blockchain technology. Below is a round up of the best quotes from the day’s discussions, in case you missed the event. For a more detailed overview of the day’s proceedings check out our live blog or our summaries of the morning and afternoon sessions. Consensus 2015: The Best Quotes | Create infographics For a more detailed overview of the day’s proceedings check out our live blog or our summaries of the morning…
If the first day of Scaling Bitcoin focused on fostering constructive dialogue, day two moved the conversation toward defining how that dialogue would proceed following the event and how such discussion could coalesce into a clearer vision for the open-source technology’s future. Topics of discussion at the event still focused most directly on the larger question of how the bitcoin network could support increased transaction levels. However, these presentations were buoyed by musings on the trade-offs that will need to be weighed should the community want to honor the project’s original democratizing vision. For example, some of the day’s talks occasionally provided a broad, analytical look at current proposals, delving into the theoretical…
Last week, over 500 attendees and speakers gathered inside New York’s TimesCenter for CoinDesk’s inaugural conference, Consensus 2015. It was a jam-packed day which bought together industry figures from the banking world, law enforcement, Silicon Valley and beyond to discuss the future use cases of blockchain technology. Away from the stage, the event saw numerous events, including the diversity scholarships, knowledge bars and book signing sessions. Toggle using the arrows below for our highlights, or search using the hashtag #Consensus2015 on Twitter. CoinDesk EventsConsensus…
Billed as a potential venue for debate on more heated issues surrounding the long-term viability of the bitcoin network, Scaling Bitcoin saw a who’s who of developers decamp to Montreal to talk about the underlying technical issues facing bitcoin yesterday. Often reduced in conversation to mentions of its price or market cap, Scaling Bitcoin succeeded at showcasing the breadth of challenges posed by bitcoin’s approach to incentivizing disparate parties to maintain a common and equally beneficial distributed resource. Held in Montreal, day one of the much-anticipated event focused more on how incentivizes for network participants should be balanced and less on the positives and negatives of any of the competing proposals – whether Bitcoin Core, its…
CoinDesk’s inaugural conference, Consensus 2015, took place at New York’s TimesCenter yesterday with speakers including Blythe Masters, Kosta Peric and Wences Casares. The afternoon sessions were kicked off by CoinDesk’s Joon Ian Wong, who led a one-on-one session with Debra Brackeen, the global head at Citi’s Innovation Center. Brackeen explained how Citi became involved in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space and said, during her approximately four years at the company, digital money had been part of the conversation. Citi funded its first crypto project in January 2014, which dealt with state-backed digital currencies. This led the bank to be much more proactive in developing a portfolio of activities in and around blockchain…
The Consensus 2015 Makeathon drew to a close today when Team 15 was awarded the event’s $5,000 prize for an application that envisioned how the blockchain could be used to produce verifiable, immutable receipts for use during an insurance claims process. Led by Tierion CEO Wayne Vaughan, the four-member team included Citi Portfolio Risk Management division associate Thulasi Janardhanan; New York University computer science major Deepak Atal; Apttus sales engineer Dom Steil; and Coin Cafe’s Emily Faber. Introducing the concept, Vaughan said: “Right now with our current insurance system there is a high risk of errors and a high cost to integrate with vendors. Our solution is to generate a blockchain receipt for every record that is collected. That…