Bitcoin Expo 2014 Announced for Shanghai The year 2014 has not even started, and already many Bitcoin conferences, including events in Miami, Toronto, Manila (Philippines) and a Bitcoin Foundation event in Amsterdam, have been announced.Now, the Bitcoin Expo 2014 is adding to the list another event, planned to take place in September 2014 in China.The conference’s official description reads:BitcoinExpo China 2014 is a three day conference and expo that will take place in Shanghai in September 2014.It aims to provide the bridge for many start-ups, service providers, and established traders to cross the Asia-gap.Presence of general public, prominent media, local delegates, and local market key players, makes this Bitcoin conference a valuable opportunity for your business entering the local market, or Asian supply chains.The Chinese community has been rushing into Bitcoin at breakneck speed since the first signs of adoption started appearing in April this year, with an online store accepting the currency and a charity taking BTC in a one-time flood relief effort and receiving over $30000 worth of Bitcoin donations in two days.

Since then, Chinese downloads of Bitcoin software have overtaken the United States, a subsidiary of the “Chinese Google” Baidu has started accepting it, and Chinese regulatory agencies have even come out to say that they will not be regulating Bitcoin for the time being.With this in mind, the conference’s organizers are very optimistic, aiming to attract 5000 attendees.bitcoin donation scriptAt this point, very little is set in stone; sponsorship offers are wide open for anyone who wants to take them.bitcoin qt save locationAnyone interested in speaking should contact the conference organizers at [email protected]Enjoy another great Bitcoin conference!edward jones bitcoinNewsletter The biggest stories in bitcoin delivered weekly to your inbox Thank you!bitcoin mt gox

Please check your inbox to confirm your subscription.Store Call for Writers We are always looking for talented writers to join our team. Be the first to know with bitcoin news delivered to your inbox No spam, we promise - unsubscribe anytimeEthan Heilman PhD student, Boston University Ethan Heilman is PhD student at Boston University's Computer Science Department and a member of the computer security research group BUSEC.mt gox found bitcoinsHis research includes novel attacks on hash functions including breaking a SHA-3 competitor, network security and Cryptocurrencies.litecoin coming to mt goxHe has contributed improvements to Bitcoin-Core to strengthen the security of Bitcoin's P2P network.His latest project is TumbleBit which allows for scalable private Bitcoin payments.Andrew Poelstra Main Developer, Elements Alpha Andrew has been programming computers since he was four years old and has taken an interest in cryptography since 13.

Today he is a main developer of the libsecp256k1 high-performance ECC library as well as the sidechain Elements Alpha.Andrew became involved in the Bitcoin community in late 2011; in 2013 he began contributing to the high-performance cryptography library libsecp256k1 which underlies Bitcoin Core's signature validation and signing.While completing his Masters of Arts at the University of Texas at Austin, he wrote and co-wrote several papers about Bitcoin, wrote the rust-bitcoin library, and contributed code and design to the sidechain Elements Alpha.In March 2016 he joined Blockstream full-time as a mathematician, where he continues to interact with the Bitcoin research community.David Vorick CEO, Sia David is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he studied Computer Science, finished his degree in three years, and graduated with honors.He has been following computer security trends since the age of 15.David has previously interned at IBM where he worked on the mainframe operating system, and turned down a job offer from Google after graduation in order to pursue Sia.

Peter Todd BTC Core Dev A Bitcoin Core contributor, researcher, and applied cryptography consultant, Peter is known for his no-nonsense approach to "blockchain" security, and his passion for outreach and education.Matt Corallo BTC Developer, Chaincode Matt is a long-time Bitcoin developer who has been contributing to Bitcoin Core since 2011.Matt helped co-found Blockstream where he co-authored the Sidechains whitepaper and implemented the Elements Sidechain.Matt also built and maintains the Bitcoin FIBRE project, the latest generation of low-latency Bitcoin block relay.Tadge Dryja Thought Leader, LIT He is co-author of the "Bitcoin Lightning Networks" paper, a proposal to increase the scalability of Bitcoin to encompass micro-payments.Thaddeus was previously an assistant professor at Mie University, and studied cryptography and network engineering at the University of Virginia.His undergraduate degree is in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Mitchell Dong Independent Energy Entrepreneur Mitchell Dong is a private investor and hedge fund manager.He is a serial entrepreneur who has started a dozen businesses over the last 40 years in alternative energy, technology and finance.He invests in quantitative traders, hedge funds and venture funds.He runs a global trading operation which trades bitcoin in China, Europe and the USA.Mitchell is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.Gregory Sanders Infrastructure Tech Engineer, Blockstream Gregory has spent the last few years as a regular contributor to Bitcoin. documentation, which is now widely utilized.He has worked extensively on the open source wallet GreenAddress, improving the privacy, security, and UX of the wallet.Now, at Blockstream, he is working on the core Bitcoin technology in addition to user-facing applications and proof of concepts.Neha Narula Director of Research, DCI Neha Narula is director of research at the Digital Currency Initiative, a part of the MIT Media Lab where she teaches courses and leads cryptocurrency and blockchain research.

While completing her PhD in computer science at MIT, she built fast, scalable databases and secure software systems, and she spoke about these topics at dozens of industry and research conferences.Shinichiro Matsuo Ph'D Research Affiliate, MIT Media Lab Dr. Shin'ichiro Matsuo is a research scientist in cryptography and information security.He is a research affiliate - Director's Liaison for Financial Cryptography at MIT Media Lab, a research professor at Keio University and a research fellow at University of Tokyo.He is an editorial team member of LEDGER, the first Blockchain academic journal and a program committee member of W3C, IEEE, ACM blockchain related academic conferences and Scaling Bitcoin.Pindar Wong, he is establishing the BSafe.network to promote applied academic research in blockchain technologies.He is the editor of three ISO/IEC standards in cryptography.Dr. Matsuo founded CELLOS, the international consortium for security evaluation of cryptographic protocol and serves as the head of its technical working group dor securing cryptographic protocol like TLS.

Anders Brownsworth Chief Evangelist, Circle Internet Financial Anders Brownworth is Chief Evangelist at Circle where he champions the Spark smart contract platform.Circle is making it as easy to move money as it is to share text, photos and videos on the Internet.Using our experience in internet technology and global finance (like helping to found and build the Allaire Corporation and Brightcove, and honing our skills at places like Square, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Adobe and Amazon), we’re making online payments easier to use, safer and more convenient than ever.Sergio Lerner Chief Scientist, RSK Labs Sergio is the Co-founder & Chief Scientist of RSK Labs and doubles as an Information Security Consultant.He has been performing cryptocurrency audits for core teams since 2011 including Bitcoin, Ethereum & zCash.In the past he has beenCo-Founder of CoinFabrik, WayniLoans, Pentatek and security adviser for the Bitcoin Foundation & Xapo.Alex Shevchenko Researcher, the Bitfury Group Alex is one of The Bitfury Group’s researchers.

Among other projects in the software R&D department, Alex also leads the company’s research on private blockchains.Alex has a PhD in mathematical modeling, where he specialized in building robust and efficient parallel algorithms for hybrid architectures as well as blockchain technology.In 2016, Alex and his team won “Best Pitch” in EY’s Blockchain Startup Challenge.Joey Krug Lead Backend Developer, Augur Joey took a leave of absence from Pomona College to focus full time on Augur.He conducted the first Bitcoin transactionvia sound as well as the first Bitcoin transaction via iOS-Android Bluetooth LE.Joey is one of the 2016 Thiel Fellows.Before creating Augur, he and Jack completed Sidecoin, which allows new cryptocurrency distributions based on "snapshots" of Bitcoin account balances.He works on Augur's back-end codebase (its Ethereum smart contracts).He is currently making Augur's consensus implementation faster and more accurate.Joey worked on Bitcoin merchant solutions and enjoys hardware tinkering and game development.