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Experts Discuss China and the Next 100 Big Startups at Inside Bitcoins
11 December 2013 | By Daniel Cawrey | Coindesk.com
Day One of the Inside Bitcoins conference in Las Vegas has come and gone, with startups and regulation-related topics being the key highlights.
The conference began with a keynote from Jered Kenna, CEO of Tradehill and an early bitcoin investor. Kenna gave a background and brief history of bitcoin, since its inception in 2008.
He also talked about China’s influence on the growing virtual currency marketstoday. “China enters the market and just dominates,” he said.
New ideas
The ‘New Ideas in Bitcoins’ panel brought together a number of leaders who promote bitcoin around the world. Pelle Braendgaard, the co-founder of Kipochi, claimed the so-called ‘unbanked’ population in Africa would be a major hotspot for virtual currencies going forward.
“It’s going to grow a lot in the next year”, he told the audience.
Jaron Lukasiewicz, CEO of trading platform Coinsetter, presented the idea that regular traders and investors want better access to bitcoin. “Investors are taking bitcoin a lot more seriously,” he said.
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