Topic: [08/12/16] Business Wire India: Fintech Storm's Ms. Arifa Khan Welcomes Vitalik (Read 281 times)

Fintech Storm's Ms. Arifa Khan Welcomes Vitalik Buterin to India to Address the First Ever BlockChain India Summit in New Delhi 6 Dec 2016
Is India ready for Bitcoin, Blockchain & other Cryptocurrencies?

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"Vitalik Buterin, Founder and Inventor of Ethereum - the world’s first distributed ledger technology platform to take the technology behind bitcoin mainstream and applicable to almost every industry - arrived in India on 6 December 2016. Vitalik Buterin, the 21 year old distinguished Peter Thiel Scholar, is here to inaugurate India’s first ever Blockchain Summit hosted by Ms. Arifa Khan, CEO of Zero Field Labs and to explore blockchain’s potential in India."

"Addressing a gathering of an excited crowd at the December 6 2016 summit at Shangri La Hotel, comprising of 150 Tech enthusiasts from Microsoft, Wipro, ConsenSys, TCS, Accenture, Synechron, National Payments Corporation of India, and several of India’s Bitcoin and Blockchain startups, Vitalik Buterin advocated Blockchain technology’s transformative potential in India to make Smart Contracts possible in fields such as agricultural markets, education, healthcare, Identity based transactions, Microfinance and Financial Inclusion. ”I am excited to see the growing interest in Ethereum and blockchain technologies coming from India; the world is finally waking up to the great potential that the technology has particularly in emerging markets, and I look forward to seeing developments with the technology grow in the months and years to come” - Vitalik Buterin."