The number of Bitcoin dedicated conferences to in 2015 suffered a considerable drop. Last year, Bitcoin conferences were held at least one per month on average. Currently, we have seen them drop down and being replaced with the showcasing of blockchain technology and payment innovation at various FinTech conferences..
Montreal has the most bitcoin ATMs per capita, and it would be the welcoming change for Montreal, home of the world’s first Bitcoin Embassy, to at least get one Bitcoin conference. Unfortunately, the Montreal Bitcoin Expo is being postponed, apparently because the organizers are having some difficulties in finding sponsors.
Now, the conference website no longer shows any details, rather a large headline, “Montreal Bitcoin Expo-Withdrawal Announcement”, followed by explanations of the situation in English and French. The message’s tone and the fact that all details have been scrubbed from the site seem to suggest that the indefinite postponement is in fact, a cancelation.
The conference would have brought together local and international pioneers in the field and offer discussions on both basic and advanced topics.
The organizers stated:
“Although we are all saddened by this turn of events, we look forward to continue to assist and educate the growing number of Montreals who use bitcoin in their daily lives. We remain committed to our ongoing efforts to spread knowledge about the wonders and possibilities of bitcoin as a solid alternative to traditional currencies. We wish to extend our best wishes of success to all bitcoin users in the island of Montreal and beyond, and we invite you to stay tuned for future updates.”
Part of the problem was that unlike most Bitcoin conferences, this one was to be free of charge for attendees, supported by sponsors. Due to the unfortunate circumstance of low financial sponsorship support the organizers wouldn’t be able to hold the convention conference free-of-charge for the attendees.
Whether it’s a devalued bitcoin or simply a matter of interest remains to be examined, but the trend will likely continue and there may even be fewer events in the years to come. For now, the organizers postponed the convention without making any mention of a possible reschedule.
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Well with all the new apps out there such as OpenBazaar, Coinffeine, there is definitely going to be renewed interest as the most interesting applications of p2p 3 party escrow transactions are now a reality :D.
Nope. Everyone who bought btc this year lost serious value as it has been steadily going down(10% gone just this week.). Stupid considering when if they had keep their fiat there buying power would have been the same value instead of a staggering loss. Ebay and paypal have had 3rd party p2p escrow for many years pre cryptofarce for big purchases, so it’s been real for awhile..
Most people would see the writing on the wall, no body who really matters wants to be associated with crytofarce but bitcoiners as per norm just don’t get it.
Its going to be an amazing thing, huh. When in a few years from now, you will be the laughing stock minority.
I am sorry mate, you belong to the flat earth society. That simple. You are simply not informed enough about these matters, to make a good judgment about it. You need to learn a bit more on economics, math, computer science, and just general common sense. Even a simpleton could comprehend the general concept behind bitcoin.
Put down the glass pipe! Drugs are bad m’kay?
Sure, whatever mate. You know all about bitcoin with all your great responses. To talk with people such as yourself, is the equivalent of talking to a wall. You give no references, nothing to prove you have “knowledge” on the topic. Just give a contrarian response, give a rough response to the price of bitcon atm, which has nothing to do with the arguments at hand. The only thing that really matters, is this, how much Ghashes there are right now securing the network, that is what truly matters. The bitcoin network is 10,000 times more secure than the top 500 super computers combined in so far as computing power is concerned.
Currency is one among many applications, and although it is very important. In so far as driving adoption from the miners perspective. So long as the price does not drop down below $70 dollars, it will not affect too much the security of the network. One exchange having a crash hardly constitutes, “the doom of bitcoin.” Or bitcoin is dead mantra that we have heard for the past 3 years. Just comes to show how retarded you are, still using bitcoins and it is working just as fine as yesterday.
We love legitimate arguments and criticism’s but your contrarianism, is non a starter for intelligent conversation. Simply negating, does absolutely nothing. Offering solutions, seeking weaknesses etc… That is what the innovators are doing, trying to break the system so it is much stronger. Nothing of which we need from your side of things. 4 words, Shut up and hack. If not, then shut your mouth.
Too many that talk hot air, but when they are put to real scrutiny, then really comes to show the frauds and liars that you are. Blah blah blah, nothing to offer. Pure nutty conspiracies as “evidence” to your assertions. Funny how that works.
I know it forwards and backwards, I also know bitpay is desparate for income and in real danger of going under. Why else do you think they dropped out of the the three years (snicker) bitcoin bowl contract. Value of btc breached and broke 200 and the stress test thi setptember coming will really put people of btc. It really was a great concept but fools with out a clue about how money and the world works who thought the would become somebody have sunk it. I still laugh that most of you really think that pizza was the btc transaction. Satoshi sending btc to Finey was the first.
Satoshi sending btc to Finey, has nothing to do with the first public commerce transaction. Big difference, between early adopters exchanging between each other, and other people valuing that subjectively for real world stuff.
Bitpay is doing just fine, the way they have set up their plan its for the long run. If you had any conversations with the developers you would know that, but you don’t because you just say stuff for the hell of it, without any data or proof. The fact that they decided not to do some ad promotion via popular media channels, just shows they made a decision that this was not going to be effective use of their money. It is not suggestive that the company is going bankrupt. Bitpay has a ton, and I mean a ton of money both in fiat and BTC. Even without any business, they will do just fine. They are doing good in the business side of things, could they be doing better? Yes, but then that is not an argument. I suggest you go pitch to them how to run a business, instead of just publicly looking like a total idiot. You sir, are hilarious, “desperate for income”, lol. How about this mate, you send me a message in 5 years and see whose wrong. That is a fair amount of time, in terms of bitcoin survival. Given that the industry, most business start ups die like flies, they seem like a solid fortress in comparison. If there is one company that has done it right, it is bitpay. In general most start ups are bound to failure, but given what I have researched and known, the numbers they publish. The VC backing them up, they are not going anywhere. They are here to stay.
Wow more empty useless words from you.
Satoshi didn’t invent the blockchain (sha-256) either, it was done by NASA on darpanet to inventory spacemission photos and info. Fool. Since you’re young it’s new to you I guess.
Wow you really are incredibly stupid, and it just comes to show in your ignorant comments. You are arguing a straw man, I never said that Satoshi did not use other cryptographic implementations. Of course, he used tried and tested technologies as anyone should. That is the whole point of progress, he found a unique way to solve a computer science problem, that to date had been unsolved. He found one way to do it, but there are probably other ways. Its just that we don’t know of any other way, Proof of Work seems to work quite well. It is well worth the expensive cost of mining, much better than the alternatives which are all hackable. Some documents like the title of your house, you really want it to be unhackable. Jus’ saying.
DARPA and NASA are two total different government departments… You are totally clueless. The blockchain was invented when there was pen and paper, the difference is a public distributed ledger. NO ONE ELSE did that, to claim otherwise makes you look idiotic. There is absolutely nothing interesting about a ledger, the difference is an unhackable public distributed ledger, a.k.a. as the Satoshi consensus via the 51%, but that number could be raised to 75% or what not. The point is majority and above consensus.
The truth is not a straw man you idiot. If your going to through around terms in an attempt to come off as intellectual then understand the terms. Darpa invented the internet, nasa invented sha-256 the blockchain, nasa back in the day used darpanet ad did all government enities. It was invented to maintain the infrastructure in the event of nuclear war. JUST HOW FUCKING CLUELESS ARE YOU?
I am not the idiot that said that the NSA invented bitcoin or blockchain, in 1986. roflol, just “read the white paper.” Well I gave a reference to that, and no where in there is it even remotely mentioned.
Its the equivalent of saying that the government built bitcoin, because Arpanet built TCP/IP (or most of it), therefore bitcoin should be renamed fed-coin. Because logically without it, bitcoin would not work… It was Arpanet, not DARPA, that messed with TCP/IP you fool. Yes there is a difference, between different branches of the military, such as NAVY and Seals. The reason why they re-brand can be because of change of leadership and focus etc… Therefore, if we are going to say anything as far as possible let it be accurate. Because your 1986 comment looks a bit far off, and it is hard for me to give you any credibility with your rough vague assertions, that we must believe you, because you are some Divine oracle of truth. Sure we can take your word for it, instead of following the facts.
Well here is a well known fact, no one had a working implementation that took off like bitcoin did. That is a historical public fact, any other assertion that this was the CIA/FBI/NSA sting, is pure unfalsifiable crap, it is pure conspiracy theory nut job stuff that belongs right in the dustbin. Secondly, even presuming that it could be potentially true, it matters little, because the source code is available and has been audited line by line by hundreds of non government agents.
So lets resume, what is that you do all the time.
1) Straw man arguments
2) Red herring’s
3) Make false vague statements
4) Simply negate without offering an alternative working theory.
I.e. useless. Grow up kid, because you obviously never did. Act your age, not your shoe size.
Well shit for brains you are determined(also long wind and young.) i’ll give you that . In 1986 the NSA did indeed infact invent purely digital money and yes there is a white paper. According to gavin/ satoshi(really gavin using a sock puppet identity for what ever reason) cut and pasted old nsa code to ahem create bitcoin. But at least you quit upvoting your absurd comments, so hope for your dumbass yet it seems. Baby steps.
You do know that there is absolutely no code left that has not been modified right, since it was originally published. There is nothing left, so to suggest that they copy pasted some NSA code, is quite hilarious stretch of the imagination.
Now I have only once since my creation of Disqus account upvoted a comment, up until recently I did not even know you could do that! So I am not sure where that comment is from, I haven’t even downvoted you.
Alright I am defeated by your awesome and powerful arguments. Bitcoin, is fedcoin, because wow how could I not have known that. It is just self-evident! We will leave it at that, want to go have some tea. Sometime later? Or are trolls allergic to that stuff, would not want to hurt your feelings or make you feel sick. Pax.
It’s from gavin that claim satoshi cut and pasted it.
I am presuming what you are saying is indeed correct, my point is that the code has been so modified that there is nothing left from Satoshi, other than the idea, that this could really work. So it is dishonest to suggest that the NSA was the one who invented it, I mean you are really stretching things here. Plus like I said, all of this is engineering at its best. Whether public or private sphere, in the end who cares about Satoshi, whether its the Fed, or a group of people or Gavin as you suggested. There are several reason why he chose to be anonymous, many of them I think is that he wanted to legally save himself from getting charged with the same counts, that Liberty dollar CEO was charged with. So looking back at things 20/20 he did the right thing, now he is a legend, and the fact that no one can definitively prove who he is. Well that just adds a bit to the mystery, the reason why I say its probably not Gavin, is because if you compare the code. Its totally different the style, I personally am of the opinion it was a group of people. Just my two bitcents. I could be wrong, and potentially your observation be right. Its all speculation and in the end, whoever is right matters little.
Gavin is really satoshi, makes sense if you go back over all gavins claims, stories ect…
More importantly the internet was invented by scientist and engineers, not politicians. That is the equivalent of saying, because a patron funded Michaelangelo, that he was the one who painted the Sisteen Chapel.
We can agree, that the internet or the bare bones it was funded by the DOD, and that would be accurate enough. Innovation will happen, because of geniuses who stand on the shoulder of previous giants, and this happens both in the private and public sector. The source of funding matters little to me, that is all I can say about that. I am just glad that it did happen, and I think even a troll like you can agree with that. If not we would not be able to be disputing here, enjoying each others vitriol. I for one, find it quite pleasant :D.
DUH DARPA! yesh.
A couple individuals are forcing xt now attempting to rebranded to some 101 foolishness. Ironic as that’s why people like grabbed on to crypto in the first place to get a way from people centralizing and deciding whats best for you. So go ahead and have at me with your pointless fury, you have a pathological need for the last word and we both know you will never admit you’re wrong.
I have been wrong many times before, and I am the first person to publicly admit to it. There is no pathological need, for me to have the last word. I am just clarifying your errors, the fact that you don’t see the fallacy. I would ask you to come back to it later, and re-read what I have said. Maybe then you might re-consider just how childish and immature it is you are saying.
Contrarianism is pointless, just negating and adding no useful commentary of any sort of utility is anti productive.I am trying to set the stage, for actual dialogue where we both understand our definitions quite well. For true discourse, but you keep putting these little side rabbit trails that have nothing to do with the topic at hand.
If you have a critique, then make a legitimate one. “Crypto is a s-ca-m” , “bitcoin is dead” , and other similar mantras your espousing makes you look stupid and immature. Some of the brightest minds, are baffled at the genius behind the technology, and your flat earth society mindset comes with idiotic skepticism.
You just proved everything I said about you to be 100% true. Coming soon another longwinded pointless post from you about what l just said about you.
I understand it forwards and backwards that’s why I can say it’s total crap, this just an old idea the nsa had in 1986. Check the white paper on it for yourself.
Amazing it took another serious crash today. Me right…you wrong.