D10e , the newly re-branded edition of the conference formerly known as Coin Congress , kicked off in the spacious and freshly painted rooms of Amsterdam’s monumental Beurs van Berlage commodity exchange last Thursday. Fully focusing on decentralization, d10e featured an international lineup of speakers including Bloq CEO and Bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik, StartJoin co-founder and TV-personality Max Keiser, Singularity University analyst David Orban and many more.
The one-day congress was opened by d10e founder, Bitcoin Foundation chairman and Blockchain Capital venture capitalist Brock Pierce. Addressing some 150 attendees filling up most of the available chairs at nine in the morning, Pierce explained what d10e was set to bring to Amsterdam.
“D10e is the first conference of its kind, bringing together a mixture of like-minded individuals building decentralized technologies,” Pierce said. “Many of these concepts overlap each other, so we stand to benefit greatly by all being in the same place and learning from each other. Think of decentralizing finance with Bitcoin and blockchains, decentralizing commerce with marketplaces like OpenBazaar, decentralizing telecommunications with FireChat , and much more.”
D10e’s former incarnation, Coin Congress, hosted conferences in San Francisco and Singapore throughout 2014 and 2015. Kicking off in the Dutch capital, the re-branded version established a partnership with gaming conference Casual Connect , and will continue to tag along in different cities around the world, focusing on fintech, disruptive technology, the sharing economy and the future of work.
Speaking to Bitcoin Magazine , d10e CEO and solutions strategist Tiffany Madison said: “Coin Congress specifically focused on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, but that space has become very saturated over the years. And while a lot of these conferences are fascinating, they are often catered to and visited by a very similar group of people. To break out of that niche, to gear Bitcoin toward mass adoption […]
