I'm writing today to announce
Bitcoin Finance 2014 to bitcointalk. This two day conference will be held in Dublin and already has some big names attending as speakers and guests such as Nicolas Cary (CEO of blockchain.info), Sam Cole (founder of KnCMiner), Jeremy Allaire (Circle), Karl Gray (Partner at Wellington Holdings & crypto investor), Bobby Lee (BTC China), Greg Brockman (CTO: Stripe), David Irvine (Maidsafe), Jean-Pierre Rupp (developer at Haskoin, discovered the Android RNG vulnerability) and many more..
BitFin will be centered around cryptocurrencies in the payments sector, regulation, investment opportunities, and the future of this technology. I won't go on about the schedule - that's already up here:
http://www.bitfin.com/#day1 and
http://www.bitfin.com/#day2Bitcoin Finance is the first big bitcoin event to hit Ireland, but in spite of this Ireland is a well established base for tech expo's such as the Web Summit and plenty others. Financial services in Ireland have already had their introduction to Bitcoin - Payments Ireland was a recent convention about the digital payments industry, where companies like Bank of Ireland, Realex, Stripe have all seen what they're facing.
There are already several Bitcoin companies operating in Ireland:
Haskoin - A BIP0032 wallet with a strong emphasis on P2SH support
Predictious - Flavien Charlon
CoinPrism - Colored Coins by Flavien once again
QuantaBytes - a blockchain analysis/forensics company
BitWasp - Open source marketplace using 2 of 3 multi-signature addresses (myself! I will also be speaking at the event about Bitwasp & P2SH)
Ireland is also seeing more and more representation of it's indigenous startups through Bitcoin Ireland, one of the partners of the Bitcoin Finance expo - This group works with developers for networking purposes and towards seeking advice & clarification from the Irish government about cryptocurrencies in general.
If you know of anyone interested in this area, developing software or starting a business related to Bitcoin, please share this post with them and help spread the word!
