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On May 19, Prague will host the largest conference in the Eastern Europe, dedicated to cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies – Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Prague . One of its topics will be optimization of labor market with the help of blockchain. The topic will be covered by Jonathan Chester (USA), the founder and president of the international service BitWage, and author of Fintech articles in Forbes. When a significant part of work is carried out remotely, and startups refuse from renting an office, employer and employees need a single platform for interaction. The two main challenges occur: mutual credibility and wage transferring (especially in the context of international translation). According to Jonathan Chester, international payments constitute a slow, complicated and costly process. Various fees and conversions on average take around 8% of the whole sum. At the same time, blockchain can cut costs greatly and simplify the job search process for jobseekers. ...

On April 19, Moscow-based Digital October hosted an annual, Russia’s largest conference, dedicated to blockchain and cryptocurrencies, – Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Russia . It gathered 750 visitors and 30 speakers – blockchain practitioners and theoreticians from Europe, America, and Africa. Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference has been held in Moscow for the fifth time. According to organizers, Smile-Expo event company, the topic moved beyond the IT scope long ago. Now it’s a whole ideology and a giant development area for business and society. The industry has significantly advanced in the last four years, Bitcoin capitalization has reached $17 billion, and the number of new projects is growing exponentially. It means that today it won’t be enough to gather everybody in one hall to talk about common topics, says Smile-Expo. Therefore, the conference was divided into two streams (financial-regulatory and professional), and speakers shared successes of launched projects. Par...

April 6, BlockShow Europe 2017 was held in Alte Kongresshalle, Munich. With 560 attendees, 26 exhibitors, and 26 speakers, the conference became the largest international Blockchain-related event ever organized in Europe. Led by Elizabeth Lumley, the managing director at Rainmaking and one of the most famous women in Fintech, the event covered a number of hot topics ranging from practical application of Blockchain technology to aspects of running an ICO. Blockchain is believed to bring trust and privacy to a lot of different industries. It’s changing the whole paradigm of how things are done in the production field as well as the logic of business models and our general approach towards partnership and cooperation. According to Mika Lammi, Head of IoT Business Development at Kouvola Innovations Oy, “Blockchain is the backbone that would connect all the stakeholders together, and the more we know about technology, the more value we can add across industries”. Bitcoin legend Charlie ...

On April 19, the annual Moscow-based Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference will feature a presentation of the legendary blockchain entrepreneur, founder of BitFury Group, Valery Vavilov. He will focus on blockchain as a new technological revolution. Media presents news about yet another large-scale BitFury project every two weeks. Shortly before its fifth anniversary, the company has announced the entry to the Chinese market and signed a memorandum with the Georgian government regarding the implementation of blockchain into Govtech sector. Before founding BitFury Group, Valery has led the teams of technical experts in various projects for 15 years. Having entrepreneurial experience, he found out about blockchain at the time when the technology only started to be discussed. Since then Valery is sure that blockchain can alter people’s life for the better. Initially, BitFury was focused on the hardware development, but later on it diversified its services, offering its users customized ...

It is not a big secret there are a lot of money in the music industry, specially for the music labels, and now in the digital age, for the few dominant download platforms as well. Although in the last decade a lot of things changed in the distributions model, not very much changed in the pockets of independent artists. With this scenario in mind, Isaac Rodriguez, Ivan Rossetti and Ying Hao Chen designed VOISE , a decentralized music streaming and downloading platform that aims to monetize independent artists. We started brainstorming ideas last summer, around August. In November most of the platform was ready and around January/February we registered the domains and set up the website. – Isaac Rodriguez, VOISE co-founder The idea itself is not really new, what makes VOISE really innovative is the business model that aims to distributes 100% of the revenue to the artists. The revenue stream for the platform will come from the premium services that ranges from profile themes and per...

On April 19, an exhibition of hardware and software for cryptocurrency industry will take place within Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Russia . It is the largest platform to exhibit bitcoin wallets, mobile applications and mining hardware in Eastern Europe. Visitors will have an opportunity to personally talk to company representatives, conduct negotiations and exchange contacts. HashCoins, the world renowned tech company with a half-million customer base, will present devices for mining BTC and altcoins, as well as a number of blockchain-based services. Software and hardware will be showcased by 51ASIC, Giga Watt and BitMoney, providers of solutions for mining farms. Apart from hardware, BitMoney will present a mobile application for P2P cryptocurrency exchange. Visitors of the companies’ booths will learn about the terms and cost of service maintenance, designing and construction of productive capacity. Crypto wallets for users will be presented by widely known BTC.com   ...

Synereo announced today the release of its first “Attention Economy toolkit” component: Synereo Qrator – a tool that allows users to monetize original content, get rewarded for sharing quality with others as well as discover the best content on the web. Qrator will be released as beta in June, establishing a decentralized “Attention Economy Layer”. In the months to follow, Qrator will further include a distributed content delivery network, allowing users to directly upload content to the Synereo CDN. With the operation of Qrator , Synereo seeks to build a cross-platform and inter-network decentralized social graph, laying the ground for the network effects necessary to bootstrap a fully populated, decentralized social content app based on blockchain and distributed storage technologies. According to a blogpost published by Synereo, Qrator ‘s closest touchpoint to the existing Internet is a browser extension that follows the user while browsing through content hosting platforms su...