Topic: Money2020, October 6-10, 2013 - Speakers list filled with Bitcoin and Ripple - page 2. (Read 8136 times)

I took it one step further that day. I went up to him after the panel to ask him specific questions.

I'm not sure if he's purposely being dishonest. Someone may have sold him a bill of goods. But he really couldn't answer any of my concerns regarding premining, centralization, closed source, debt, and the Big Dump.

Btw, wasn't the code supposed to be open sourced by now? .

Centralized, closed-source, non-cryptocurrency, premined coin that was created for 1 reason: To enrich the founders.

So what is your opinion about Ripple Smothie?
So far I do not consider Ripple to be a cryptocurrency at all...

Just my input for anyone going to this event, don't listen to Chris Larson's talk. I found him to very dishonest in answering direct questions concerning ripple. I was sitting next to Cypher at the Bitcoin Conference in May when he was on the panel "answering" questions, so he can vouch for me on this.

Sound pretty cool. There will be a lot of bright minds at the event.

You're a class act, Roger. Why couldn't Blockchain come out themselves?

Just to be clear,  I am NOT the founder of Blockchain,  and have already contacted Money 2020 to fix this error.
I'm simply representing Blockchain at the conference.

I think the only Bitcoin names from the 2012 conference were  ....

BitInstant ... whose principals were there just one day because they had another big gig that same week, and David Birch.  

I don't know that Payward's Jesse Powell was a speaker, but his epic "Bitcoin pitch" at a dinner table one evening during it got written up in this article:

This article is too awesome... Bitcoin FTW at Money2020
 - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/this-article-is-too-awesome-bitcoin-ftw-at-money2020-130103
 - http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/the-future-of-money-its-not-in-your-hands/


Meanwhile in Las Vegas.....
 - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/meanwhile-in-las-vegas-119732

October 6-10, 2013 in Las Vegas will be Money2020 - 2013, a very large emerging payments conference in the U.S.

The speakers list shows Bitcoin will be present:

Patrick Murck, General Counsel, Bitcoin Foundation
Constance Choi, General Counsel, Payward
Megan Burton, CEO, CoinX
Fred Ehrsam, Co-Founder, Coinbase
Tony Gallippi, CEO, BitPay
Jered Kenna, CEO, Tradehill
Roger Ver, Founder, Representative, Blockchain  [Edit: see Roger's comment below]
Denis Kiselev, Founder & CEO, SnapSwap
Chris Larsen, CEO, OpenCoin
David Schwartz, Chief Cryptographer, Ripple
Stefan Thomas, CTO, Ripple
Bob Way, Integration Engineer, Ripple
Vinny Lingham, CEO, Gyft
Mike Vichich, CEO, Glyph  [Edit: Pfffft .... Oops, that speaker is from Glyph, not Gliph (http://Gli.ph).]

Other speakers that have or had Bitcoin-related significance:
Brian Keller-Heikkila, CTO, ZipZap
Kristo Kaarmann, CEO, TransferWise
Brett Meyers, CEO, CurrencyFair
Ben Milne, CEO, Dwolla
Steve Streit, CEO, Green Dot
David Wolman, Contributing Editor, Wired
David Birch, Managing Director, Consult Hyperion

 - http://money2020.com/speakers/year/2013


This will probably be the first time many in the financial, banking and payments industry will learn of Ripple (OpenCoin, SnapSwap -- a Bitcoin exchange and Ripple gateway).  A Ripple Dev Con will occur on the last day, October 10th:
 - https://ripple.com/blog/win-free-tickets-to-the-exclusive-money2020-ripple-developer-conference-and-50000-xrp

If I missed any, feel free to add them in a reply.