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With Stewart on vacation, the blockchain takes over the podcast! In episode 121, Jason Weinstein and Alan Cohn talk all things bitcoin, blockchain, and distributed ledger technology, and interview Jamie Smith, Ex-Global Chief Communications Officer for the BitFury Group, one of the largest full-service blockchain technology companies.

Today New America, The Bitfury Group, and the National Democratic Institute announced the launch of the Blockchain Trust Accelerator Institute, a platform that will connect Blockchain-based pilot concepts with the technologists, governments, and funders in order to deliver better governance outcomes and social impact. The Blockchain Trust Accelerator will help match promising pilot proposals with the civic expertise and technical partners needed to produce software that can be successfully scaled to address social and governance challenges.

New America, blockchain company the Bitfury Group and the non-governmental organization the National Democratic Institute announced today that they have formed the Blockchain Trust Accelerator Initiative, which aims to connect governments with technologists and funders to hasten the adoption of the technology for social good and governance.

Blockchain is the hottest topic in fintech. Technology editor Joy Macknight asks Val Vavilov, CEO, BitFury, to sum up the technology in under two minutes.

It seemed the eclectic mix of people — authors, an aerospace engineer, former Pentagon and CIA and Department of Homeland Security officials, a musician, a foreign exchange and derivatives specialist, the founder of a Chinese fintech museum — could, through their respective industries and communities, help unleash the transformation many believe this technology can trigger. As that was the mission of sponsors BitFury Group, a Bitcoin mining, chip manufacturing and blockchain services company and MaiTai Global, a non-profit that holds events worldwide bringing together entrepreneurs, investors and athletes, fait accompli.

What is arguably the most exclusive blockchain industry conference, the Blockchain Summit, sponsored by the BitFury Group and MaiTai Global, kicks off its second annual event this Saturday on long-time innovator, futurist and entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson’s Necker Island in the Caribbean. This year, the notable attendees of the Blockchain Summit include Marietje Schaake, a member of the European Parliament whom the Wall Street Journal called “Europe’s Most Wired Politician;” Jim Newsome, the former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the New York Mercantile Exchange; and Beth Moses, aerospace engineer and astronaut for Virgin Galactic.

One of the most fascinating aspects of the Bitcoin narrative is the trajectory of its price. Since its birth seven years ago, this abstract currency that only exists as computer code and/or in a small but rabid collective conscious has gone from completely worthless to almost $450 for a single Bitcoin.
Soon, it will reach a milestone that could boost the price even further — what is known in the Bitcoin community as a halving event.

Identity 2020 summit was held on May 20,2016 at United Nations Headquarters in New York addressed the world's Identity problems. It witnessed representatives from more than 50 technology businesses including reps from blockchain centric companies.

A complete presentation on ‘Blockchain Technology’ was presented by Jamie Smith, Ex-Global Chief Communications Officer of BitFury Group which makes blockchain hardware.

Blockchain is a vast, global distributed ledger or database running on millions of devices and open to anyone, where not just information but anything of value — money, but also titles, deeds, identities, even votes — can be moved, stored and managed securely and privately. Trust is established through mass collaboration and clever code rather than by powerful intermediaries like governments and banks.

Already, an intrepid and visionary crop of entrepreneurs is applying this revolutionary new technology to transform industries from financial services to media and everything in between. Here are a few of the most promising we got to know during the research for our book “Blockchain Revolution”: