Bitcoin News

The Economic Development Corporation of the City of New York has returned to launch its most important conference on Blockchain: Consensus 2018 day 1.

That is, in its most important conferences, Consensus 2018. Topics related to Bitcoin, altcoins, cryptocurrencies, and blockchain were deepened.

James Patchett, president, and CEO of the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) announced plans to transform the city of New York into a blockchain-based hub.

We are a global leader in finance, real estate, media, and technology: all industries see incredible innovation from this new technology, the city is putting a big focus on blockchain to discover how we can grow the industry and make sure that is creating great opportunities for New Yorkers, “said James Patchett in his speech.

First initiative: NYC Blockchain Resource Center Consensus 2018 day 1

The NYCEDC has in mind to launch two initiatives, the first is the NYC Blockchain Resource Center.

The NYCEDC commented, in Consensus 2018, that it seeks to make this place a center for the entire blockchain industry.

In addition, as well as a place to investigate how blockchain could be implemented to help NYC become more global.

The NYC Resource Center will have a mission to disseminate the blockchain technology, in this way, it will be able to train the New York public about blockchain.

This first initiative will also aim to provide counseling and tutoring services.

Also, it will seek to connect business owners with blockchain technology.

The center will also build a network of investors and stakeholders in blockchain technology, where government officials and consumer advocates will participate.

Second initiative: Competition to encourage the development of Blockchain Consensus 2018 day 1

In the consensus 2018 day 1 also launched a second initiative, which corresponds to a public blockchain competition.

The NYCEDC plans to launch a competition in which projects based on blockchain technology.

Where they will compete to know what can best meet the needs of the services and processes of the public sector.

This second initiative commented on in Consensus 2018, day 1, also mentions that they plan to hold educational workshops for senior officials.

In which government officials interested in knowing the benefits of the blockchain will be trained.

NYCEDC plans to begin this competition by the end of 2018.

There is not a city in the world that is better positioned to lead the blockchain road,” said James Patchett. Patchett could not be more correct. These new NYCEDC initiatives have the potential to be big game changers in the blockchain industry, as New York City is a leader in many industries. It will be exciting to follow the success of your new initiatives.

In this way, Consensus 2018 concluded day 1, with these two surprises, the launching of the interest to turn New York into the blockchain hub.

And looking for healthy competition among developers, managing to train high officials.

Share this article so that more people can read and understand more about the ecosystem of Bitcoin, Blockchain, and cryptocurrencies.

Dear reader, next I will present you the top 5 Startup Brazil that has obtained the great sum of $ 12 million dollars of investment of different groups of investors.

Both Brazilian and international, which are the most important today, how they are currently, and more about the money they have raised since its foundation through graphics and real data thanks to startupranking.com.

1. Skoob: startup for people who love to read

What is Skoob?

Skoob is a Brazilian startup that has a social network for readers, currently, it is the largest in Brazil.

It works as ahdjd virtual showcase, where you can not only publish the books you’ve read, but also those you want to read.

Everything is well organized so that you do not lose the rhythm of your readings.

In addition, you have the advantage of being able to share your opinions with your friends, exchange books, participate in raffles and win prizes.

Skoob is free for those who actively participate. If you like to read or want to take a look, just register.

How to use the Skoob startup

The way to use Skoob is very simple.

The first step is to register in Skoob, becoming a “skoober”. Then, add your books to your library.

From that moment things start to be more interesting, there are several tools on the site to interact with other skoobers.

What can you do in SKOOB?

You can create your own literary space in your profile. Add people and invite your friends to participate.

Create your bookshelf using the title search. Mark the books that you have read, that you are going to read, that you are reading or also those that you stopped reading.

Mark your favorite books, the ones you want to have, the ones you already have, the ones you are reading for, the ones you have borrowed and the ones you want to exchange.

Classify each of your books using the star scale: from one to five. Write the review about what you just read or have read and share it with your friends!

The Brazilian startup has done a lot of good to the entire technology community of and in the Brazilian startup, it seeks to democratize the knowledge through all the tools previously presented.

2. JusBrasil: a technology startup with legal suits

What is JusBrasil

It is a technology company where engineers join forces with people with a legal background to solve old problems with new approaches.

So, even with some high school graduates, the majority of the team is made up of software developers, designers and the like.

Its environment is relaxed (they are inspired by Californian companies such as Google, Facebook, Apple), like any startup, the dress code is relaxed.

We seek to give place to the flexibility of the schedules.

They do everything within our possibilities to encourage creativity, freedom, and harmony of the team. JusBrasil – Startup Brazil

This is how the Brazilian startup Jusbrasil has been forged. If it’s true, it’s hard to believe, that’s why its doors are always open for all startups that want to know them.

What is the mission of the startup Jusbrasil?

Jusbrasil exists to connect people to justice through lawyers and legal information accessible to all.

For that they exist, they have the privilege of observing closely the interaction of millions of vigilantes and we know how people want and need an easy and efficient way to “assert justice”.

The Brazilian startup Jusbrasil knows the reason for their existence and they know what to focus their forces on.

We believe that the simple fact of society to know their rights and makes it juster. JusBrasil team

3. Hotmart: convert a community into an affiliate site

We are a Brazilian startup founded in 2011, aims to offer a platform that allows the sale of digital products and the dissemination of it.

We are revolutionizing the digital market and the way of content consumption. We are leaders in the sale of digital products in Latin America and we already have more than 500,000 users. Hotmart for startup Brazil

The company focuses on serving all its customers. Currently, we are more than 700 thousand people committed to transforming the world, each in its own way.

But this story is just beginning, the Hotmart startup is not there to grow and is entering other countries.

If you have a startup or traditional business you could use the Hotmar function to sell your online course free and unlimited area.

In conclusion, the startup Hotmart hosts organize, sells and distributes your digital product without knowing anything about programming.

Also, without spending a penny. An easy and free way to transform what you know into income.

 4. Enjoei: from fashion blog to successful ecommerce in Brazil

Enjoei ss one of the e-commerce platforms in Brazil focuses on selling fashion items such as clothing, accessories and more.

In addition, the Brazilian startup offers the sale option so that each person can offer their products on the platform.

The brief history of the startup Enjoei

Founded in the blog format of Ana Luiza McLaren and the ecommerce website, the sale of used clothing is linked.

Thanks to the increase in mail and the advice of their friends who had previously created other startup ecommerce, Enjoei became a virtual store.

The success was so much that they received 3 million reais for private and foreign funding. Since 2012, it has not stopped growing.

In 2015 there was the start of the End of End Project that allowed the sale of third party products by the site as affiliates, reaching more than 200 thousand accumulated transanctions in 7 years. Enjoei – Startup Brazil

5. Sympla: the biggest startup in ticket sales in Brazil

Sympla is a startup that offers a platform that integrates ticket sales, registration and event management for any type of event.

From shows, parties, courses, congresses, sports, religious, gastronomic events and many more.

The Brazilian startup Sympla through its platform promotes the philosophy “do it yourself” in Brazil, seeks to simplify the administration of the stages of the event.

In addition, they bring advantages for the organizer and registration to paid and free events for the buyer. The startup with the largest number of events in Brazil

Everything you need for the success of your event on a single platform! We offer powerful and effective tools, as well as smart solutions that revolutionized the way producers create and manage their events. The Sympla is for all types of events, anywhere in Brazil. Sympla PR – Startup Brazil

What Brazilian startup Sympla proposes

A complete and optimized management through simple tools to use.

With technology and freedom, the event producer can create a personalized page.

In addition, have an intelligent control of your participants, sell physical and online tickets, check-in participants through the application, among other functions.

Insights Startup Brazil

General Stats

The total financing of these 5 Brazilian startups is $ 12,888,466 dollars disbursed by 4 investors

The SR Score on average is 84.022, this is calculated through different variables.

A. Top Investor

Movile, Bertelsmann, Founders Fund and Monashees are the investors that have managed to boost the Brazilian entrepreneurial ecosystem, the amount is $ 12M in total.

B. Top Categories

The startups in this Brazilian ranking belong to the Big Data, Affiliate Marketing, Web, Sales and Internet groups.

Being sales and internet the predominant in this group of Brazilian startups.

C. Top Countries

This time all the Brazilian startups are also from the same country, so the graph will be very similar to the previous analysis of Startup Chile.

Share this article so that more people can read and understand more about the ecosystem of Startups in Brazil.

Dear reader, this time I will tell you about the status of cryptocurrencies in Argentina and how 5000 Bitcoin ATM can save it from 25% inflation.

No country, nor Brazil, Chile, Colombia or Peru have exceeded an inflation rate of 3%.

This means that under current conditions, it is increasingly difficult to survive in this country.

As a result, some companies and individuals seek solutions and the Argentine government promulgates the use of Bitcoin through Bitcoin ATM.

Argentina seeks to exit inflation through Bitcoin and replicating the international model

You know the case of many companies worldwide that accept bitcoin as a means of payment.

Among them, an Australian company that accepts Bitcoin in its Melbourne Urban Velocity store:

Hi all, I’ve been into Bitcoin for a few months and I’ve tried my buddy to start accepting Bitcoin at his bike shop. He is now stocking original 80’s retro BMX bikes too! He is on Coinmap.org. Check out his shop if you want to spend some bitcoins, his bikes are awesome. – CEO Urban Velocity Store

In search of getting out of this situation, franchises like Subway started accepting Bitcoin

That Saturday, I was the only one with a shop open [on Reconquista 934] in front of the hotel where the Bitcoin conference was being held. All of a sudden, I had a bunch of kids talking to me about it. It really grabbed my attention, because I thought it was something a lot more isolated.

– Fernando, the owner of the local Subway

Fernando says he is not yet interested in investing in cryptocurrencies.

However, through the exchange of hamburgers and Bitcoins, you want to promote the Bitcoin culture in Argentina.

Another startup that has begun to accept bitcoin as a means of payment is the ecommerce avalancha.com. Focused on the sale of household appliances.

Taringa.net an online discussion forum has also announced that it will soon start paying its most active users with bitcoin.

Similarly, independent professions have begun to accept bitcoin as a means of payment.

I am a certified masseuse, and I accept payments in bitcoins. You can find me on facebook.com/masajesvillabosch and also on Google Maps. – Leandro Sosa, certified masseuse in Argentina.

Odyssey Group takes the opportunity to regularize and implement Bitcoin ATM

The government through the Argentine central bank has announced the permission for the implementation of Bitcoin ATM.

In this way, allow the use of cryptocurrency withdrawals at Bitcoin ATM.

Sebastián Ponceliz founder of the company Odyssey specialized in Bitcoin ATM automatic teller machines.

This company has a presence in 65 countries internationally and Latin America.

Take the regulation of Bitcoin ATM in Argentina as an opportunity to boost your business in Latin America.

According to local media, Argentina has more than 145 businesses where bitcoin is used as a means of payment.

 Bitcoin ATM as a possible solution to unstoppable inflation

The Argentine government promotes the regulation of Bitcoin ATM and other altcoins.

Sebastián Ponceliz commented that Bitcoin ATM orders are on the rise.

Its implementation cost varies between 8,500 and 10,000 dollars and will be administered by the same clients.

Among the most recurrent customers of bitcoin ATM bidirectional machines are

Stores, shopping centers, public dependencies, pharmacy chains, supermarket chains, a chain of kiosks and banks, said Ponceliz.

Although Odyssey founder Sebastian Ponceliz said he does not believe in cryptocurrencies as such.

Since he believes that Bitcoin is a bubble and has no intrinsic value.

However, he believes that it is an interesting application of Blockchain technology. In addition to being a good alternative to a currency of payment, but not as active.

Petro Coin the biggest scam in history is backed by drug trafficking. Which has just raised 3.3 billion dollars in its ICO or initial coin offering.

Dear reader, we are at a very difficult time in the history of cryptocurrencies and altcoins such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. The Petro Coin has just obtained its maximum financing.

What will happen now that the Petro Coin has obtained 3.3 billion dollars

Now that Petro Coin is the possessor of such an exorbitant amount of money, he will be able to continue his move to mass.

The dictator Nicolas Maduro has just announced the acceptance of 16 exchanges, I quote:

The certification of these 16 exchanges demonstrates Petro’s confidence as a cryptocurrency and will allow for liquidity and volume of transactions. Nicolás Maduro, dictator of Venezuela over the Petro coin, in Venezuela empower 2018.

The exchanges to which Maduro has given the go-ahead to market Petro Coin are the following:

Criptoexchainge, Criptocapital, Asesoria Financiera Financiaera c.a., Italcambio, Antwerp Coin, Cave Blockchainge, Valoratta Brokerage House, Coinsecure.ve, Critiaechainge, Criptolago, Criptoventraige CA, Cryptoactive Menets c.a., Cryptoactive Bancar c.a., Criptomundo House Exchange c.a., Financial Investments 1444 c.a. and Criptoes Cryptoactive. Source: CoinCrispy

However, these exchanges have not commented on whether or not they will accept the commercialization or wait for another event.

Who have developed 3.3 billion dollars for the Petro Coin ICO

No media talks about this but it is not difficult to reach the conclusion of who is behind this coin.

Let’s recap

Venezuela is a country that is currently dominated by a narco-dictatorship. This narco-dictatorship is backed by extreme-left countries such as Colombia, Cuba, and Bolivia. Cuba being the matrix house.

All these countries survive thanks to drug trafficking supporting each other to continue with their regime. Cuba feeds and supplies these countries. Currently in Venezuela there are more than 10,000 Cuban soldiers supported by drug trafficking.

Consequently, those who have bought the Petro coin is nothing more than the circle that surrounds Venezuela. Because no intelligent and supportive person would support a murderous government, which has caused the emigration of approximately 1 million Venezuelans between 2016 and 2017.

In conclusion

We do not see the exorbitant amount collected by the Petro Coin ICO as a milestone in history. Neither as an investment opportunity nor as a sign of confidence.

Since, as time passes and the country of Venezuela can recover from this dictatorial regime.

We will see how the Petro Coin, a cryptocurrency backed by drug trafficking, will diminish its value and the only ones that will benefit will be the drug traffickers who will wash their money with this currency.

Share this article so that more people can read and understand more about the operation of Petro Coin within the ecosystem of Bitcoin and altcoins.

Bitcoin News today April 29

Dear reader, belonging to this growing technology community and blockchain enthusiasts, today I will tell you about the Bitcoin news today April 29, which has been echoing all over the internet, the most important thing in regard to crypto-posts in today, have a coffee and adjust the belt here we go.

1. Second life to Bitcoin seized by drugs thanks to the governments of the United States, United Kingdom, Bulgaria, and Germany.

According to the study of the University of Technology of Sydney, it is demonstrated that the fourth part of the cryptocurrencies is linked with drugs and drug trafficking. This is so, thanks to the characteristic that has blockchain of being anonymous.

The United States recently has seized the amount of 170000 bitcoin units. In this way, we can calculate that they obtained 1.5 trillion dollars if the public sale is made.

Germany also conducted an investigation to capture those who called themselves Silk Road 2. The amount of bitcoin seized in total was 126. That is a total of 1.2 million dollars at today’s exchange rate.

In the case of United Kingdom, they also obtained a favorable result after the capture of drug trafficking groups. The total amount of bitcoin seized was a total of 213519.

Consequently, there is a long way to travel to avoid this type of action. However, the fact that the FBI, the DEA, and other international organizations work on it is a good sign. The bitcoin auction is a very good option to avoid internal disputes.

To finish, it would not be too much for this bitcoin to be offered to the exchange houses. Or maybe, that the government itself creates its own blockchain network.

2. Panama as regional leader Fintech in Latin America: promote the ecosystem through an international conference.

The Caribbean country seeks to become an international creative power, incubator, and promoter of fintech companies.

Panama has to be agile, it is time to move forward with the project of modernization of the financial system, because the region that advances now could be put on par with the neighbors of South America, such as Colombia, which has executed two years of a plan 10-year strategic plan whose purpose is to become the leader in fintech in the region, a seat led by Argentina and followed by Chile.

Jorge Farías

Executive Director, Cryptobuyer

The company Cryptobuyer is an exchange of purchase and sale of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

The exchange house of Panamanian cryptocurrency is the one who organizes this conference. Which will be held the first days of March. In addition, they will have a hackathon aimed at developing solutions using blockchain.

In conclusion, with this effort, they seek to educate the Panamanian population towards a culture of use for bitcoin.

Taking into account that they also seek collaboration with the government to implement new laws. In this way, encourage the use of blockchain in Panama.

3. The Superintendency of Banks of Panama warns of the misuse of Bitcoin and its country’s cryptocurrencies

The supervisor of the state of Panama shows fear of the growth that bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are having in the country.

In such a way, they are now suggesting to the Panamanian population that they be careful with the operations, transference, purchase, and sale of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.

However, associations that work together many initiatives, with the government do not understand this ambivalent action.

That is, in 2017 the government supported many initiatives to develop the growth of Panama Fintech companies.

As for example the Hackathon “Fintech Panama 2017”, and the events organized by the PanaFintech group.

In consequence, the community of developers and entrepreneurs of the world bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are disgusted.

This is due to the lack of a clear position by the government. Consequently, they will seek a dialogue table to improve the actions to be taken on blockchain technology in Panama.

Featured image courtesy of Panama Blockchain Embassy

4. Banks of Chile in Jaque for blocking the functioning of Buda and other exchange

Recently the banks in Chile have agreed to block the exchange bitcoin houses of their country.

That is, exchange houses like Buda create bank accounts in the countries in which they operate. As for example Peru, Colombia, and Chile.

“Basically, the industry will continue to develop, and it is also very important for the country, not only for the cryptocurrency industry, because banks here have too much control over everything. So, the fact that they can kill an industry, an entire industry, a complete technology, simply because they did not like it, is very risky for a country. ” Guillermo Torrealba, CEO of Buda.com

He also commented that the excuse that banks were giving for the closure has no basis.

Since they are based on the excuse that bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are not regulated. Which is not a valid argument.

“They are not the ones who decide what is regulated or not” said Torrealba.

In short, this situation is unfair, we just have to wait for the official statement from the Chilean banking entities about its position with bitcoin and altcoins.