Consensus 2015
2015-09-10
New York City, United States
[Consensus 2015, Consensus 2020, Consensus 2021, Consensus 2022]
as the organisers put it
CoinDesk is announcing its flagship conference, Consensus 2015, which happens on 10th September in New York City.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| State of Blockchain | Garrick Hileman | 18m |
Industry funding totals $894 million VC to date with 23 countries hosting startups, 2014 VC at $362M and 2015 YTD $436M; largest deals grow from $20–30M to… | ||
| The Future of Innovation on the Blockchain | Emin Gün Sirer, Adam Ludin, Gregory Maxwell, Mike Hearn, Tim Swanson, Vitalik Buterin | 33m |
A technical debate about permissioned vs permissionless ledgers focuses on real tradeoffs: running private chains looks like databases, public chains face… | ||
| Law Enforcement on the Blockchain | Jerry Brito, Kathryn Haun, Tigran Gambaryan, Catherine Pelker, Jason Weinstein | 39m |
Panel details specific cases and tradecraft: a non-prosecution agreement with a Ripple-era firm follows undercover buys that show large transfers with only… | ||
| Bitcoin - Finding the Critical Path to Mass Adoption | Michael J. Casey, Connie Chung, Oskar Miel, Jon Downing, Vinny Lingham | 30m |
Merchant-focused rollouts are not the obvious path to mass use; adoption concentrates where existing rails fail. Panel gives a working estimate of 2–3 million… | ||
| A $1.6 Quadrillion Opportunity - Securities Clearing and Settlement | Hans Morris, Blythe Masters, Houman Shadab | 46m |
Claims that blockchains can cut settlement from days to minutes target a real $1.6 quadrillion market cleared by DTCC and aim to eliminate costly… | ||
| 1 on 1 | Joon Ian Wong, Debra Brackeen | 21m |
Citi Ventures runs eight global innovation labs, an internal acceleration fund and a venture arm that invested in chain.com, and the first funded proof of… | ||
| Proof of Good? Blockchain Tech, Civic Tech and Social Impact | Grace Caffyn, Chelsea Barabas, John Edge, Bill Tai | 32m |
Panel describes concrete work: a push to give 230 million unregistered children digital identities via Identity 2020, experiments to put land titling and a… | ||
| Blockchain Fundraising Ecosystem Trends | Pete Rizzo, Scott Robinson, Vanessa Colella, Anjney Midha, Jalak Jobanputra | 31m |
Panel reports about $900M invested in the bitcoin/blockchain space, notes Chain's $30M round and Abra's $12M Series A, and estimates 70% of funded startups… | ||
| Makathon Winners | 05m | |
Eighty people enter a makeathon and team 15 wins the $5,000 prize with a concrete build: a claims processing system that creates a blockchain receipt at every… | ||
| Moving Money: Could Digital Currency Impact Global Remittances and Financial Inclusion | Stan Higgins, Anne Shere Wallwork, Kosta Peric, Steven Malby, Maxine Ryan | 31m |
Panel presents concrete claims and pilots: a cash‑in cash‑out blockchain remittance backend (Bitspark) that routes to mobile money, experiments linking bitcoin… | ||
| Consumer Protection on the Blockchain | Stan Higgins, Jim Newsome, Martine Niejadlik, Joe Colangelo, David Tait | 20m |
Panel lists concrete risks and fixes: most big losses come from custodial platforms — about 70 thefts over 500 BTC historically — so custody, key‑loss and… | ||
| The Tipping Point: Could Micropayments Take Digital Currencies Mainstream? | Emily Spaven, Dan Morehead, Wences Casares, Hernán Botbol | 20m |
Bitcoin micropayments power a live revenue‑share that doubles content creation on Taringa — a Latin American network with 80 million monthly users — by paying… | ||
| Bitcoin and its Antecedents: A Look at the History and Evolution of Digital Cash | Nathaniel Popper, Christopher Allen, Garrick Hileman | 26m |
Bitcoin emerges as a patchwork of 1990s experiments — Digicash (fails due to a company-controlled mint), hashcash (reused as PoW), b‑money and Bit Gold —… | ||
| What's Wall Street Doing With Blockchains? | Jesse McWaters, Julio Faura, Cheryl Gurz, Morgan McKenney, Simon Taylor | 41m |
Large banks report concrete pilots: an accelerator onboards startups like Everledger, a public experiment tests censorship‑resistant payments, a custodian runs… | ||
| Better Than Cash? The Future of Digital and Mobile Money | Ben Parker, Bill Barhydt, Olawale Ayeni, Alan Grundy | 30m |
Panel claims a working model: Abra uses bitcoin and smart contracts to lock fiat-value balances and runs a smartphone app plus an “AbraTeller” agent network in… | ||
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