Bitcoin Wednesday nieuwjaarsborrel 2015

Bitcoin Wednesday reconvenes in 2015 with a nieuwjaarsborrel on 7 January: an evening of networking, drinking and enjoying thought-provoking presentations about the digital currency revolution.

What makes Amsterdam and The Netherlands one of the leading places in the world for digital currencies? Diversity, knowledge, community and capital are some of the key ingredients, and these will be in good supply on 7 January.

Here’s a quick look at some of the topics to be covered:

* Ethereum on Counterparty

* A hardware wallet on a USB.

* “Why would I invest in your cryptocurrency startup.”  Early stage investor Maurice Beckand Verwee of the Crosspring Incubator will talk about his investor’s view of the Dutch digital currency startup scene.

* Evan Schwartz, a developer from Ripple Labs in San Francisco, will give a special presentation on his Codius project, a blockchain-agnostic platform for distributed applications and smart contracts. Evan will talk about how Codius can be used to design decentralized programs that interact directly with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other blockchains.

* Getting traction for your own coin by one of the most popular alts in the Netherlands.

* Bitcoin in a Mobile Chat App: Demo and presentation of SendChat by Alejandro de Torre.

* They’ve already reached a market cap of $17 million: The NXT Team gives us a close look at their leading NXT Bitcoin 2.0 Platform

* Reddit Cryptocurrency

* Peter Todd’s CheckClockTimeVerify: Bitcoin Escrow and Refunds

* Silk Road 2.0

* Bitcoin the Microsoft Way