Airbnb Warming to Bitcoin, Invites Coinbase to HQ

Private accommodation giant Airbnb is taking an increasing interest in blockchain technology – and has invited Coinbase to give a talk at its San Francisco headquarters December 3.
Airbnb announced on its blog that director of engineering Adrian Macneil would present the Bitcoin blockchain as part of the company’s meetups program.
Accoding to the event’s description, Macneil will:
‘[L]ook at how transactions are generated and broadcast in a completely trustless peer-to-peer network, discuss what role miners play in this network, and whether the blockchain network could exist independent of the Bitcoin currency, look at some of the potential future applications of Bitcoin and the blockchain, including sidechains and decentralized asset tracking.’

This post was published at Coin Telegraph on 2014-12-01.