#BITCOINCONF PARIS PREVIEW: A ‘DIGITAL REVOLUTION IN MONEY’

NEW YORK (InsideBitcoins) – The program has been set and the first Inside Bitcoins Conference in France is scheduled for November 20-21 in Paris. The highly-anticipated event will cover the hot-button issues facing the cryptocurrency industry, including: regulation, compliance, security, trading, investing and e-commerce.
Nicholas Cary, CEO of Blockchain.info, will deliver the opening keynote address with an ‘International Review: Bitcoin Stories from Across the Globe.’ We asked Cary to share some of his thoughts on recent industry events.
Blockchain.info recently raised a well-publicized record round of Series A funding. What did you learn going through this process that you could never have anticipated?
A lot of people might not know this but Blockchain was a completely boot-strapped company for three years. We wanted to prove to ourselves that we had a real business and to orientate the company for a very long period of building. We had some very strong fiscal discipline and focused on creating a healthy balance sheet.
We were able to expand our team and grow the company quickly without outside funding. We’ve accomplished a lot with a little, now we’re even more excited to see what we can do. As a team, we could not be more honored and privileged by the trust that our users place in us. We take the responsibility that goes along with the honor very seriously and as we thought about the next five years for our users and for the company, we knew it was time to bring on additional resources to move even faster on product and technology development.

This post was published at Inside Bitcoins on Nov 4, 2014.