Just over one week ago, World Crypto Con was touting how well-balanced the genders were for their speakers’ agenda. Did you know half the speakers at World Crypto Con are women? Lady bosses are taking over blockchain! pic.twitter.com/zsJAoRmYrP — World Crypto Con (@WorldCryptoCon) July 25, 2018 On Monday, the blockchain and crypto media are buzzing over a series of tweets by Pamela Paige, a real estate developer and blockchain enthusiast who attended the Las Vegas event this past weekend and had a series of experiences that didn’t jibe with this messaging. Confronted with a rash of misogynistic behavior during the event, Paige tweeted her peace to 16,000 followers. https://twitter.com/ThePinkCrypto/status/1058820568638603264 https://twitter.com/ThePinkCrypto/status/1058820572937805824…
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What it’s like inside Trust Square, Zurich’s blockchain innovation hub
We got a private tour from co-founder Ozan Polat
ZURICH—A vibrant blockchain community has blossomed in Switzerland. On April 27, 2018, Ozan Polat and four other founding partners opened Trust Square in the Swiss capital. The three-floor coworking space (they’re adding a fourth soon) boasts a central Banhofstrasse address and houses some 40-45 companies actively doing work in the blockchain space. It’s exclusive! “We’re extremely startup-focused, and we do a little due diligence before we approve a membership here,” Polat told us when Modern Consensus visited for a tour. “We try to identify what these projects provide to the community. Some hedge funds want offices here, but they don’t make anything.” As a center of gravity for innovation in…
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Desico brings a Kickstarter mentality to launching tokenized securities
And it happens in regulated, legally compliant environment—in Lithuania
A blockchain platform called Desico claims it’s the world’s first way to issue and trade security tokens in full compliance with the law. Taking its name as an acronym of “decentralized ecosystem for security ICOs,” the company was founded in the first quarter of 2018 by the three-person team of Laimonas Noreika, Ethan Pierse, and Audrius Griskevicius. The entrepreneurial trio has an established track record in financial technology. In 2015, they started FinBee, a peer-to-peer lending and crowdfunding platform that has already funded more than $15 million euro in loans for businesses and individuals. Now they turn their attention to the world of crypto and blockchain. One can think of…
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China declares blockchain evidence to be legally valid
The cryptocurrency opponent still wants to harness the blockchain
The Supreme People’s Court of China has formally determined that blockchain-based evidence is legally valid and admissible in court. While its national bank is straight-up proud of its efforts to curb cryptocurrency adoption by its citizens, the country’s judicial system just came out in favor of its underlying technology. A legal spat over copyright infringement between two Chinese companies brought this issue to a head. The plaintiff found the offending material online and took action, hashing the infringement and storing it in a distributed ledger managed by blockchain evidence platform Baoquan. Storing the material in this manner proves the time and date that something happened, giving the courts a chain…
