Blockchain London Conference arrives in Olympia London - next week!

Blockchain London Conference arrives in Olympia London, don’t miss out! The Blockchain London Conference will arrive in Olympia London next week for the first leg of the 2018 World Series. The world’s largest blockchain event will be co-located with the AI and IoT Tech expo and is set to have 14,000 attendees, 500+ speakers and 250+ exhibitors.

Registration will open at 8am on Wednesday 18th April, Olympia London. Event attendees can expect to meet with like-minded individuals and exhibitors such as IBM, BrandShield, Bitfury, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, Stratis and XcelTrip in a series of networking opportunities, that are included in a paid pass. The first evening of the show will host a networking party at Under The Bridge, starting at 6.30pm. Alongside a VIP lounge to connect with other attendees, there is also an event app where you are able to contact all attendees at the expo and plan meetings.

The Blockchain Expo will also allow you to ask questions to the events 200+ thought leading
speakers in Q&A sessions. These speakers include:

• Neil Marshall, Global Director at Coca Cola
• Jeremy Millar, Founding board member at Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
• Vincent Doumeizel, Vice President Food and Sustainability at Lloyd’s Register
• Richard Kastelein, Founder and Publisher at Blockchain News
• Nicola McCheyne, Head of Ideas Lab at Centrica
• Jo-Jo Hubbard, COO and Co-founder at Electron
• Roberto Garcia, Head of Blockchain IT at Santander
• Mark Simpson, Distinguished Engineer, Innovation Engineering at RBS
• Nigel Collett, Director IT Strategy at BC Ferries
• Julian Gray, Technology Director and BP
• Boris Spremo, Blockchain Innovation at BNY Mellon

There is under a week left to register for the event, so make sure you don’t miss out.

Amsterdam Blockchain Conference will also take place at RAI, Amsterdam on 27-28 June 2018,
alongside the exciting announcement of the Blockchain Awards, taking place during the first
evening of Amsterdam. San Francisco Blockchain Conference will take place at the Santa Clara
Convention Center in the heart of Silicon Valley on 28-29 November 2018.

Global Crypto Press is proud to be a media partner with the Blockchain Expo event series - register at https://blockchain-expo.com/global/

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The American city that has banned cryptocurrency mining...


The city of Plattsburgh in upstate New York issued an 18-month moratorium on cryptocurrency mining. 

Plattsburgh is part of a long-standing power agreement that gives the city an allotment of some of the cheapest electricity anywhere in the world, but a recent influx of cryptomining companies and their energy-draining rigs have raised power prices at the expense of the general population. 

The ban is meant to be a temporary arrangement, but it could potentially end all cryptomining investment in the city. (Via Motherboard)

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Bitcoin explodes! Price gains $1000 in just 1 hour - what to watch for next...

Bitcoin and altcoins are in the middle of a powerful rally today - with Bitcoin 's value jumping up by over $1000, all in less than an hour.

While a rally is always good - a rally isn't always recovery.  Here's what to look for next.

First - will it hold above $7500 for over 24hrs? This is a sign of support and stabilization investors are watching for.

Then only after market stabilization, can true market recovery begin.   If the above happens, and is then followed by Bitcoin breaking the $8500 resistance marker - we can officially consider the cryptocurrency markets in true recovery and rebound mode.

So far so good though - the market has held steady throughout the day, and we're about half way though the first of these two key steps.
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Author: Ross Davis
San Francisco News Desk

In China, cryptocurrencies remain banned - while the government pours millions into blockchain tech...

China seems to still be figuring out their comfort level with the cryptocurrency world, while making an effort to not get left behind technologically while enforcing a cryptocurrency trading ban.

Blockchain technology itself has grabbed the attention of both the Chinese government and the private Chinese tech industry - they actually lead the world in blockchain related patents already - with over double America's total of 112, with a total of 284 over the last 2 years.

Now a new fund of over $1.6 billion allocated to 'innovative blockchain startups' includes $400 million of Chinese government funds, with the rest from Chinese venture capital firm Tunlan Investments.

Still, no signs of letting up on the cryptocurrency crack down.  For now, China is big on blockchain, and bad on cryptocurrency.

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Author: Adam Lee
Asia News Desk

Canadian banks fail miserably at slowing down cryptocurrency purchases...

With The Bank of Montreal (BMO) now joining Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD Bank) in blocking cryptocurrency exchange purchases within Canada - smart Canadian's are proving their efforts to be useless.

Credit-card based purchases have been blocked in numerous countries for some time now, and that's hardly surprising. While my personal belief is that someone has the right to decide their own risks - I can also see the bankers point that using credit cards (technically loans) to buy cryptocurrency falls under a 'high risk' transaction category, so they can at least make an argument for blocking such transactions.

But these Canadian banks took things a step further - actually blocking people from using their own money - not just credit, but even debit card transactions. Which frankly - is pretty disturbing.

Not surprising - the Canadian cryptocurrency community isn't putting up with it - trade is alive and well in Canada despite these bankers best efforts to interfere.

They're using a number of alternative methods exercize their freedoms.

First, leaving these corperate banks alltogether. Local credit unions and co-operative financial services providers are easy to find and join in pretty much every city across Canada.

Then of course, there's Bitcoin ATM's.  Simply withdraw cash from your bank, deposit it into a Bitcoin ATM and have the cryptocurrency issued to your digital wallet.  Once you have paper cash in hand, the bank loses control over how you use it.

Lastly, sites that connect traders directly with each other like localbitcoins.com and there's even one specific to Canada, cancoin.co.  These sites are reporting usage up 400% in response to these recent moves by Canadian bankers.

Thanks to the strength and wits of the Canadian cryptocurrency community, they're giving the banks a hard pill to swallow - they can't, and won't be stopped.

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Author: Ross Davis
San Francisco News Desk

The most powerful and wealthiest families in the world - Rockefellers, Rothschilds and Soros - are all entering the cryptocurrency space...

Rumors are flying in the traditional financial world, that some of the most elite and wealthy families are preparing their entry into the cryptocurrency markets.  

Here's what we know so far...

First, the Rockefellers Venture Capitol company 'Venrock' has confirmed their partnership with Coinfund - an investment fund that focuses only on cryptocurrencies.

Then, Adam Fisher who manages micro investing for Soros Fund Management has reportedly been given the green light to venture into the cryptocurrency space as well, according to RT.

Even the Rothschilds dipped their feet in the water late last year, quietly entering the cryptocurrency market though the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust.

So - what does this all mean? This is where it gets tricky to speculate without sounding like some kind of conspiracy theorist. But these families all have a couple things in common: they don't like to lose money, and they're extremely well connected politically.

So to think "maybe they know something we don't" isn't a stretch of the imagination.  What specifically could that be? We have no idea, but whatever it is - it appears to be good news for us.

Perhaps we are on the verge of the bull run that brings the cryptocurrency markets from billions, to trillions.
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Author: Ross Davis
San Francisco News Desk

@Bitcoin hacked on Twitter - but the owner says it's a conspiracy and Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey is part of it...

The Twitter username @Bitcoin has taken a lot of heat in the past - that's because the anonymous owner doesn't use it to actually talk Bitcoin, but is instead a heavy promoter of BCH (aka Bitcoin Cash or BCash) an alternative coin to the original Bitcoin.

Hackers in both Russia and Turkey claimed credit for the hack, but the account owner is going as far as claiming the Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was part of an inside-job conspiracy against him.

"...Jack disabled this account, gave it to someone else, only to return it in the face of public backlash with 750,000 fewer followers. #censorship" he said in a Tweet shortly after gaining back control of the account.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has been an advocate of the original Bitcoin, recently stating "The world ultimately will have a single currency, the internet will have a single currency. I personally believe that it will be bitcoin."

Unfortunately, the truth behind the hack is likely much less interesting, and we highly doubt this was an 'inside job'.  A more likely and simple explanation such as malware or a keylogger installed on a device of the owner is probably how this and most twitter 'hacks' occur.
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Author: Adam Lee
Asia News Desk