This week we bring you some more news from Ireland as well as upcoming local events where you will be welcome to come and learn about Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies.
What is happening on the Irish Blockchain scene?
Weekly News
CheckItsReal
There have been more reports out about Check its Real including an interview with its CEO Charlie Sherlock.
https://www.checkitsreal.com
Check It's Real will provide solutions to guarantee authenticity of products from pharma to clothing to aircraft parts.
- https://irishtechnews.ie/charlie-sherlock-of-checkitsreal-describes-how-blockchain-can-help-save-lives/
- https://irishtechnews.ie/checkitsreal-use-blockchain-to-detect-and-eliminate-counterfeit-products/
Other News
More articles have appeared on the The Irish Department of Finance discussion paper on Virtual Currencies in Ireland.
The discussion paper provides an accessible overview of the technology and the current view of Blockchain Technology from a legislative perspective (in different jurisdictions).
Comtrade
There was news in Silicon Republic this week about events hosted by Comtrade, a firm with strong links to Ireland.
https://www.comtrade.com/
Quality Assurance
Comtrade will be running a conference in Dublin in October where Blockchain in the context of QA will be discussed.
Aviation Industry
Comtrade hosted a Blockchain Hackathon for the aviation industry at Dublin Business School in January. Luke Maxwell writes about it in silicon republic this week.
Videos
The Crypto Divas
@jilliangodsil and Morgan Pierce bring us the good and bad news stories from the Week in Crypto. There was a lot of good news this week.
Meetups This Week
This week will be a quieter week for Meetups in Dublin.
Dublin Blockchain Forge
This weekly meetup group is in the Crypto Cafe on Wednesday. For more information check out their meetup page
Recommended Reading
New to Crypto?
This article by Deloitte gives a great overview of the possibilities, and some of the industries that will be affected by it.
https://www2.deloitte.com/ie/en/pages/financial-services/articles/blockchain.htmlFor information about upcoming ICO's @lukebrn, an Irish writer and ICO consultant, has started writing about them on Steemit.
https://steemit.com/@lukebrnFor an intro to Bitcoin, the book Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas Antonopoulos is a great place to start.
As always please add comments to this post with any upcoming events or developments that you think may be of interest to readers.
Previous Issues
- https://steemit.com/ireland/@eroche/crypto-in-ireland-issue-1
- https://steemit.com/ireland/@eroche/crypto-in-ireland-issue-2
- https://steemit.com/ireland/@eroche/crypto-in-ireland-issue-3
- https://steemit.com/ireland/@eroche/crypto-in-ireland-issue-4
- https://steemit.com/ireland/@eroche/crypto-in-ireland-issue-5
- https://steemit.com/ireland/@eroche/crypto-in-ireland-issue-6
Thank you for reading this. I write on Steemit about Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Travel.
Ireland is exotic to have crypto ventures. Beautiful country & beautiful people. Divas we look forward to hearing some good news :)
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Ireland may be aware of cryptocurrencies bcs of lack of experience with this. People will educate themselves about this and everything will be better in a future for sure :)
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Hello @ Very good results. You have my tiger's stan eyes. It's going to be a very good result for you. Your mission is to continue. You have a nice day
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Thank bro..
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Glad to hear blockchain implementation grows in your country
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ty 4 an upvote
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Nice info @eroche
Thanks for sharing
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