Inside Bitcoins Conference in San Diego, California — 2015

BitSabio was present at the Inside Bitcoins Conference which took place in San Diego on December 15–16, the conference was a great opportunity for all the local Bitcoin San Diego Bitcoin Meetup members to attend and meet other influential folks in the global bitcoin community.

Day 1:

Steve Beauregard, CEO & Founder of GoCoin.com was the morning Keynote speaker tackling the topic of “Train customers to pay with bitcoin by leveraging blockchain loyalty and incentives”.

Steve talked about the flaw in the checkout process many online merchants sites have today, Steve points out the “Coupon Code” field which prompts shoppers to go in search of a code & often never go return to the checkout page to complete their purchase. GoCoin.com offers a solution to this problem by providing rewards for shoppers paying with bitcoin, the rewards accumulate and the shopper can use them on future purchases.

Eric Lombrozo, Co-CEO & CTO of Ciphrex Corporation was the midday Keynote speaker discussion the tough to handle topic of “The Future of Crypto”.

Eric shared his insights on some big projects happening right now in the layered protocol design and cross-chain contracts area, he also went in depth and discussed how he sees bitcoin’s growth accelarating in the areas of digital content distribution, network services and sharing of computation resources.

Patrick M. Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com was the evening Keynote speaker delivering a fantastic presentation on Wall Street under the topic “You Don’t Need to Trust Wall Street — You Only Need to Trust Math”.

Patrick talked to a packed room about Wall Street and built up his presentation leading to t0.com (the trade is the settlement).

Hundreds of attendees at the conference were present to witness Patrick announce that the SEC had approved Overstock.com’s subsidiary t0.com to issue stocks over the blockchain. Here is the article from Wired.com on the announcement.

Here is a full video of Patrick’s presentation at Inside Bitcoins in San Diego:

Day 2:

A lot of meeting new folks took place on day 2, learned about other companies building decentralized technologies and below is the summary of some of them:

Alexandria is a platform that allows content creators to publish and monetize their content such as movies, music, art and other types of content. Davon Read is the CEO & got to chat with him.

Bitwage allows companies to reduce payroll costs, increase transfer speeds, and have increased visibility into the payment process (taken from their site). Jonathan Chester is the COO & got to chat with him as well.

Tone Vays talked about the pros and cons of bitcoin investing, here is a video of his presentation on the history of bitcoin. Also got to chat in length with Tone, great times in San Diego.

Inside Bitcoins was a great conference and we see a great future ahead for everyone mentioned in this post, we had a fantastic time chatting and meeting everyone and we look forward to seeing them all again in Miami at The North American Bitcoin Conference.

Gino