Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey recently said that it’s his mission in life to spread adoption and promote awareness of BitcoinBitcoin. The latest step in the process? Launching an online conference designed to educate institutions about the leading cryptocurrency.
The B Word is the name of the initiative, and it will go live on July 21 with an online conference featuring Dorsey and other notable speakers. Square is co-sponsoring the event along with investment firms ARK Invest and Paradigm, as well as the Crypto Council for Innovation.
Along with Dorsey, the online conference will feature ARK Invest founder, CEO, and CIO Cathie Wood, as well as Blockstream co-founder and CEO Adam Back and noted Bitcoin developer John Newbery. It will also include Michael Morell, former acting and deputy director of the CIA and current senior counsel of Beacon Global Strategies.
According to the official website, The B Word “aims to demystify and destigmatize mainstream narratives about Bitcoin, explain how institutions can and should embrace it, and raise awareness around areas of the network that need support.” Along with the conference, The B Word will provide a library of resources for institutions considering using Bitcoin.
The #bitcoin development community above all else.
As more companies and institutions get into the mix, we all want to help protect and spread what makes #bitcoin open development so perfect.
The conference will include five tracks designed to inform participants on various aspects of the Bitcoin ecosystem: Demystifying Bitcoin, Supporting the Developer Ecosystem, Securing the Bitcoin Network, Regulating Bitcoin, and Preserving the Bitcoin Ethos. Amidst all of that will be a live panel featuring Dorsey, Wood, and other speakers, moderated by Square Crypto’s Steve Lee.
“The Bitcoin developer community above all else,” Dorsey tweeted today alongside the announcement. “As more companies and institutions get into the mix, we all want to help protect and spread what makes Bitcoin open development so perfect. This day is focused on education and actions to do just that.”
Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey is a dyed-in-the-wool Bitcoiner—a man who has described the cryptocurrency whitepaper as “poetry,” who has a Bitcoin clock in his home, and has donated ample funds to accelerate Bitcoin adoption and development.
Today, at the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, he doubled down on that love. During a nearly 30-minute fireside chat with the Human Rights Foundation’s Alex Gladstein, Dorsey delivered platitudes about the coin, stating, “Bitcoin absolutely changes eve...
“Whatever my companies can do to make it accessible to everyone is how I’m going to spend the rest of my life,” Dorsey stated at Bitcoin 2021. “If I were not at Square or Twitter, I would be working on Bitcoin. If it needed more help than Square or Twitter, I would leave them for Bitcoin.”
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