GIBRALTAR, GIB. MAY 9, 2018 – The leading ICO advisory firm is pleased to announce its inaugural blockchain event ‘’. The conference will be held on the five-star Sunborn Yacht Hotel in Gibraltar, taking place from the 28th to the 29th of June 2018.
TokenMarket has confirmed a range of industry experts within the blockchain space including, William Mougayar, Simon Dixon, Jon Matonis, David Drake, and Ransu Salovaara.
“We are excited to host our very own conference which combined with a great line-up of partners and speakers, will share our knowledge together of the fast moving ICO market,” states TokenMarket CEO, Ransu Salovaara.
“Token sales have evolved enormously over the past year with regulations coming in place and institutional investors participating. Having now advised on over 30 token sales, managing technical, marketing and compliance aspects of these projects, we are looking forward to sharing our insights with conference participants.”
A variety of high profile blockchain speakers and panelists are set to share their knowledge regarding the token economy throughout the event, including; William Mougayar, Author of “”; David Drake, Chairman at ; Olga Feldmeier, CEO at ; Ransu Salovaara, CEO and Founder of ; Jonathan Smith, Co-Founder and CTO at ; Vinay Gupta, Founder at ; Eric Jackson, CEO at and Author of ‘PayPal Wars’; Mikko Ohtamaa, Founder and CTO at plus .
“We will dive into the future of app tokens, tokenised securities and exchanges that trade in these different kinds of tokens,” says Salovaara.
All panels, keynotes and guest speakers will be featured in the luxurious Aurora Ballroom within the Sunborn Hotel. Following the informative day sessions, TokenMarket invites all attendees to enjoy a variety of cuisines and after hours events. This includes a weekend golf tournament and kite surfing, all in the midst of the Mediterranean summer.
For more information on TokenMarket 2018: ‘Insights Into The Token Economy’ please visit https://tokenmarket.net/conference-2018/
For all conference enquiries, please contact conference@tokenmarket.net
About TokenMarket
TokenMarket is a premier ICO information portal and advisory firm. It combines its market experience, resources and data assets to create a professionally tailored solution to execute ICO’s safely and securely, providing an end-to-end service for token creation, presale and public sale. TokenMarket’s ICO advisory service has partnered over 30 token sales including Storj, Populous, Monaco, Civic and Dent, raising over $300 million in total.
Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum’s cofounder, is increasingly finding himself target of very public rumors about his role in the project’s supposed love of secrecy. Charges of lacking transparency are equivalent to mortal sins in the cryptocurrency space. Ethereum too is particularly sensitive about accusations along these lines, especially in the ongoing light of a possible US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) crackdown. Mr. Buterin and his supporters are fighting back.
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Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin Responds to Critics
And there it was, as Mr. Buterin, skeletal boy genius behind Ethereum, took to Twitter: “[…] it was organized without my permission or even involvement [….]” The turn of phrase, without my permission, might well haunt him in the days and months to come. It presupposes his benevolence, of course. What was it organized sans Mr. Buterin’s blessing or presense?
The “it” was a recent meeting in Toronto, Canada of Ethereum players, promptly blasted by Catallaxy co-founder and Satoshi Portal CEO (Bylls) Francis Pouliot. He described the event as a “Secret meeting of Ethereum management committee,” in a Tweetstorm for the ages, continuing about how “blockchain governance rules were decided by the stakeholders.”
The entire Ethereum project of late has come under ecosystem scrutiny due to in the United States set to determine its legal fate. Judged a security, and therefore subject to regulatory jurisdiction as a public company, could conceivably rock much of the crypto world. A healthy majority of initial coin offerings (ICOs) and smart contract platforms are dependent upon ERC20 tokenization.
The not even three-year-old tech is many a developer’s choice, allowing for ease of integration and largely trusted. It is unclear, as of this writing, exactly what implications are carried with an unfavorable SEC determination, but most analysts believe it to be negative at least in the short run. Indeed, most ICOs openly forbid US citizens’ participation in anticipation of odious regulations and subpoenas.
Ethereum as an Insane, Plutocratic Government
“This is insane,” Mr. Pouliot insisted. “They are establishing a plutocratic government. This has provably failed with bitcoin (UASF/NO2X). Does anybody even care?” The evidence marshalled for the slam came from a lone news source, which described the event in worrying terms, according to Mr. Pouliot’s reading.
And it does appear discussions about decentralization, mining, scarcity, and the infamous cases of frozen funds were had in Toronto. However, the cryptosphere seemed unconvinced about a cabal, and took Mr. Pouliot to task. Principal Lane Rettig “The event was not secret, in fact we livestreamed a lot of it. We also did a public AMA. There is no ‘Ethereum management committee’ and no rules were made. Please get your facts right. Your message is intellectually dishonest.” Mr. Pouliot shot back paraphrasing attributed to Mr. Rettig, and the thread continued along those lines.
Vitalik Buterin was eventually compelled to address the issue as it gained traction among the other rumors and news surrounding Ethereum. “I was not at this meeting,” Mr. Buterin tweeted in , “it was organized without my permission or even involvement, and I honestly don’t really know much about what happened there.”
In what might be considered a classic Twitter tangent, Mr. Buterin was sucked, then again, into another side argument about privacy coins and the phenomenon of maximalism. Asked his opinion of Monero, he insisted, “If I was doing anything seriously privacy-demanding I’d probably go for Zcash first.” This brought further from privacy coin guru Rhett Creighton, himself the subject of much lately, who snarkily wrote in response, “Says the paid Zcash advisor,” landing him in a strange bedfellows situation with polemicist . News of potential regulation and very public Twitter flames might have also contributed to an of roughly a 5% price dip for ether, but it seems to have recovered at time of publication.
Is this much ado about nothing, or is Ethereum in real trouble? Let us know in the comments section below.
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