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The Consensus conference. Hosted by Coindesk, a prominent blockchain media and research company. Since its launch in 2015, Consensus has drawn all major companies, developers, investors, and academics from the cryptocurrency and blockchain worlds to discuss the future of the industry.

The price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will rise after the 2015 -- 2017 Consensus conference. As a result, Consensus is also considered to be one of the important weathervanes for the cryptocurrency industry.

This year's Consensus 2019 conference will be held in New York on May 13, solstice 15. The theme of this conference is: business, markets and technology. Its main topics include: token issue, blockchain game, enterprise alliance chain, decentralized finance, blockchain governance, and blockchain adoption.

Due to the large agenda of the conference, 210 meetings will be held in parallel over three days. BlockBeats will select and update the discussion worthy of attention at the conference every day on May 13, solstice, 15.Live entrance

George Gilder, economist: bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a remedy for the economic crisis

Bitcoin, its spinoff ethereum and other cryptocurrencies are remedies for the financial crisis of 2008. The economic crisis has proved that centralised systems are not secure. Gold equals money because it is scarce when everything else is abundant. Bitcoin was created by satoshi nakamoto in imitation of gold, but what nakamoto was wrong about was that he thought the gold would be mined out, so he set the value of 21 million bitcoins, but the gold would not be mined out. Gold works as a currency because it excludes the influence of technology and capital, and the more technology and capital you put into digging for gold, the harder it is to dig for it. The deeper you bury the gold, the more dispersed it becomes. So gold is equal to time.

Joseph Lubin, co-founder of ethereum and founder of Consensys: data is currency, attention is currency, and we are changing the nature of value

The Internet started out as a way for academic institutions to exchange research papers. Now most of our economy runs on the Internet. The Internet started with dreams of decentralization, but those dreams led to some powerful Internet companies. Now this can also happen on blockchains, where we can tokenize the platform so that people can have tokens and participate in it. I think data is the currency, and so is attention. We are changing the nature of value. Calling ethereum the world's computer is naive. Ethereum's strength lies in the automation of trust, but now it needs decentralized storage, decentralized bandwidth, and decentralized identity systems.

Coinbase CEO: Coinbase does not require a banking license

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong was asked at the 2019 New York consensus conference if Coinbase is a digital bank. Coinbase is not a bank, he says, because the Coinbase wallet allows users to hold their own private keys, so Coinbase does not need a banking licence. Institutional investors account for 60% of trading volume on Coinbase. Coinbase prefers that people keep their private keys through the Coinbase wallet but still trade them on an exchange, and Coinbase is looking for third-party companies to try to do that. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong: has managed nearly $1 billion in cryptocurrency assets since Coinbase Custody was released a year ago. Seventy institutional investors signed up, adding $150m a month.

Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne: I've heard that the raven RVN is special

Just 0.2% of Overstock's sales are in bitcoin, a percentage that has held steady since the 2013 bull market. Banks currently offer few services and few options for bitcoin payments. I hear ravens RVN is special.

Blockstream CEO Adam Back: currencies are winner-takes-all

Blockstream CEO Adam Back: the relationship between cryptocurrencies and blockchains is like the relationship between the Internet and the LAN in the early days of the Internet. Because of network effects, currencies can be winner-takes-all. The world is changing fast. When blockstream was founded in 2014, no one knew Banks were interested in bitcoin, but in the last two years, all the big Banks have become blockchain laboratories.

Consensus2019 DAY 1 agenda (15 May) :

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