Bitcoin Wednesday Amsterdam #23

Bitcoin Wednesday Amsterdam #23 (http://www.bitcoinwednesday.com/event/bitcoin-wednesday-23/)

The best and longest-running regular Bitcoin Meetup in the Netherlands held on the first Wednesday of every month.

On the program for May 6th:

• Ben Bollen, one of the core developers of MaidSafe (http://www.bitcoinwednesday.com/profile-benjamin-bollen/);

• Robert Ross, the founder of FoldingCoin (http://www.bitcoinwednesday.com/profile-folding-coin/), on using the mining process to help solve the world's scientific problems;

• Is Bitcoin money or isn't it? The debate continues: Professor Jan Bergstra (http://www.bitcoinwednesday.com/profile-jan-bergstra/), director of the Informatics Institute at the University of Amsterdam, weighs in on the technical classifications of digital currency. His answer may surprise you.

• Bitpay's proposal to implement microtransactions in the existing Bitcoin network;

• Ideas about cryptocurrency scalability and Proof of Stake consensus algorithms recently published by Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum.

For the complete program and latest updates, visit BitcoinWednesday.com. (http://www.bitcoinwednesday.com/event/bitcoin-wednesday-23/)

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This event is an open and low-key gathering for anyone interested in Bitcoin.

Always held on the first Wednesday of every month.

For novices and experts alike.

Bitcoin Wednesday brings together a diverse group of people from all levels and backgrounds without any barriers in order to give this important new technology a more prominent role in Dutch society.

One of the goals of Bitcoin Wednesday is to spread the word about Bitcoin (and related technology) in the Netherlands by raising the overall level of awareness and knowledge.