The current pandemic is far from over and the economic, political, and social ramifications of this crisis remain unclear. Indeed, the nature of the workplace people return to might well be radically different to what previously existed. During an online panel session, hosted by Cointelegraph’s Stephen Chase, fintech pioneers debated how the Coronavirus could act as a catalyst for change in people’s attitudes towards working, technology, and online payments. Given the 24/7 nature of cryptocurrencies, all the panelists had remote working policies in place prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, so the immediate disruption was minimal. When asked which sectors were …

On April 21, Cointelegraph hosted its first virtual Cointelegraph Talks meetup. The event consisted of two expert panels discussing major news and developments in the crypto world today, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. What we heard on Greenback 2.0 The panel tackling the subject of a United States central bank-backed digital dollar, featured guests with backgrounds in crypto, software, finance, legal and monetary policy. Morgan Ricks is a professor at Vanderbilt Law and lead author of a paper on FedAccounts for digital dollars that helped shape recent bills proposing such accounts as a way to distribute COVID-19 stimulus. …

Cointelegraph is launching Cointelegraph Talks, a series of online events featuring top blockchain and cryptocurrency experts and executives. The first Cointelegraph Talks event kicks off at 3:00 PM EST on Tuesday, April 21, featuring major industry figures including Binance.US CEO Catherine Coley and Robert Beadles, president at blockchain company Monarch. The meetup’s live stream will be available on Cointelegraph’s YouTube channel. The event will consist of two panels, at which industry experts will discuss the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the development of digital payments, as well as the digitization of the world’s reserve currency — the United States …

Day One, March 5 The world has a fever. A fever for blockchain. But that’s not the only infectious substance in the room. The spectre of the spiralling Coronavirus crisis looms large over today’s conference in the United Kingdom. London has sold out of hand sanitizer and some of blockchain’s biggest names are fist-bumping and elbow-tapping at London Blockchain Week to avoid hand contact. Although the summit is about extolling the virtues of blockchain, coronavirus is the elephant in the room. And there’s certainly room for an elephant in the cavernous main hall of 8 Northumberland Avenue, in the beating …

Cointelegraph was on the ground for NFT NYC, event taking place a couple of hundred feet from Times Square dedicated to non-fungible tokens. While most of the companies at NFT NYC are early-stage startups still looking for their users, two attending organizations have hundreds of millions of fans around the world. Adrienne O'Keeffe, associate vice president of partnerships at the NBA, and Sophie Gage, counsel at the NFL Player’s Association, joined a panel to discuss the value of blockchain technology for big brands. Cointelegraph scored an exclusive interview after their public discussion. NFTs will create greater fan engagement “This is …

A number of cryptocurrency-related conferences across Asia are being delayed in response to the regional coronavirus outbreak. TOKEN2049, a major crypto event held annually in Hong Kong, is the latest one to postpone its conference. Originally scheduled for mid-March 2020, TOKEN2049 will now instead be taking place on October 7-8, 2020. The TOKEN2049 team announced: “Over the past weeks, we have been monitoring the global developments around the coronavirus closely. Whilst Hong Kong is managing the situation well and has taken strict precautions to contain any potential impact, uncertainty prevails.” Crypto firms in Hong Kong cease operations amid coronavirus and …

The Festival of Decentralized Technology, BlockShow Asia 2019, taking place in Singapore on Nov. 14–15, has announced its highlights: conferences, fireside chats, meetups and other sorts of activities. Fireside chats and debates First of all, the guests of BlockShow Asia will have the chance to visit a fireside chat, “All That Fintech With a ‘Layer’ of Blockchain,” with Sopnendu Mohanty, the chief fintech officer at the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and Gabriel Yang, the new head of Asia for BlockShow 2019 and the former chief operations officer of Beyond Blocks. BlockShow Asia will also feature an interview with Changpeng Zhao, …

79 percent of attendees at crypto events are male, according to a report by events-oriented software firm Bizzabo on Jan. 28. After analyzing the registration information of 100 different cryptocurrency-related events in 15 countries, Bizzabo found that the overwhelming majority of attendees were male. In the course of the survey, Bizzabo took data from the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Canada, Israel, Hong Kong, China and Australia, with the U.S. leading other countries in the number of registrants and attendees at crypto events. 57 percent of attendees were employed in the financial sector, while other registrants at crypto events …

This week, the government of China has cracked down on crypto-related WeChat accounts, blockchain events and digital asset exchanges, solidifying its negative stance on cryptocurrency trading and the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) market. WeChat ban and PBoC’s warning against ICOs On Aug. 22, Cointelegraph reported that WeChat, China’s biggest messaging app that has over 1 billion active monthly users, banned the accounts of cryptocurrency investors, users and businesses. At the time, Lanjinger, a local financial media outlet, reported that the accounts of Deepchain, Huobi News, Node Capital-backed Jinse and Coindaily were suspended or taken down permanently, as they violated its …

Cointelegraph begins LIVE video streaming of LaBITconf from Mexico! This major Annual Latin American Bitcoin Conference takes place in Mexico City on December 4-5, 2015. The great part of the conference is held by local companies in Spanish with simultaneous translations. While guests of the conference, including Andreas Antonopoulos, Trace Mayer, Erik Voorehes, Tuur Demeester, speak in English. Follow the LIVE video streaming and listen to smart chosen topics from Cryptocyrrency and FinTech experts to drive through Bitcoin and Blockchain opportunities. LaBITconf Schedule December 5 Registration Mexico - 10:00 (GMT-6) New York - 11:00 (GMT-5) London - 16:00 (GMT) Athens …

Nearly 200 entrepreneurs, enthusiasts, private sector representatives and governmental officials were convened last week for the Crypto Valley Summit 2014 in the Isle of Man to share their points of views on numerous topics involving digital currencies and discuss the opportunities and challenges that is facing the industry. The two-day event took place on the island from September 17 to 18 and gathered leading industry entrepreneurs from all over the world including the Founders of GoCoin, Steve Beauregard and Brock Pierce, the CEO of Counting House, Paul Davis, the CEO of Instabil, Jason Field, and the CEO of BankToTheFuture, Simon …

This October, Paris will be welcoming the first French-speaking Bitcoin conference in the Euro zone, an event that will feature prominent names in the industry including representatives from BlockChain.info, the Bitcoin Foundation and political French figures. Euro Bitcoin will take place on October 8 2014 at the François Mitterrand site of the Bibiliothèque nationale de France (French National Library) in Paris and Cointelegraph is proud to announce that it will take part as an official media sponsor. The even will focus on 3 main objectives: educate on the Bitcoin protocol and the ecosystem, communicate on cryptocurrencies' challenges for banks, multinational …