Bitcoin and Digital Currencies:
The Future of Money?
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Saturday, May 3, 2014
Baxter Lecture Hall
(Directions & Campus Map)
Caltech – Pasadena
8:00 AM Registration
& Continental Breakfast
9:00 to 11:15 am – Program
11:15 – Noon Post Program Networking
$40.00 Advance / $50 Door
$10 Students / Caltech Students Free
It is “a breakthrough in computer science” resulting from 20 years of
research and development that will lead to the emergence of new products, companies and industries.This is how Marc Andreessen recently described Bitcoin. While some dismiss Bitcoin as a tool enabling criminals and terrorists
to transfer money anonymously, investors are making significant bets that Bitcoin and other digital currencies will someday change the way the financial system works in the Internet era. One Bitcoin company, Circle, recently raised $17 million in VC funding. Bitcoin’s entrepreneurial opportunities go beyond arbitrage. Entrepreneurs are building companies on top of digital currency technologies while governments around the world are scrambling to create rules that will bring these currencies into the mainstream financial system.
Our program will go beyond the basics and explore the opportunities of
Bitcoin and other digital currencies that are quickly coming into focus for entrepreneurs, investors, merchants and consumers and the numerous challenges these entrepreneurs are likely to encounter.
Keynote Speakers:
Brock Pierce
Digital Currency Pioneer
Serial Entrepreneur
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Mary Dent
Founder
dcIQ
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Jay Postma, CAMS
President
MSB Compliance Inc.
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Moderator:
Brian Klein, Partner, Baker and Marquart LLP
Chair, Legal Advocacy Committee, Bitcoin Foundation
Producers:
Kevin D. DeBré, Partner,Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP
Michael Krieger, Counsel, Willenken, Wilson, Loh & Delgado
Ira Moskatel, Counsel, Arnold & Porter LLP
Mike Nilsson, President, Nilsson Rental Properties
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Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum thanks its Founding Sponsors:
Special thanks to Materia, Inc., for its generous donation of office space for the
Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum Staff!
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