Crypto in Ireland - Issue 8
This week we bring you some more news from Ireland as well as upcoming local events where you will be welcome to come and learn about Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies.
What is happening on the Irish Blockchain scene?
Weekly News
Digital Health Incubator
https://www.tcd.ie/explore-innovation/validator/
There is no doubt in my mind that the health care industry will be transformed by Blockchain, Etheal is one great example that you should check out.
An article in Silicon Republic this week covers Trinity College Dublin's 8 week intensive incubator program Validator, where start ups from all over europe can explore opportunities in the health care industry.
Will any Blockchain startups take part in the validator programme in Trinity this year?
Silicon Valley Banks Claire Lee
This June Inspirefest will be taking place in Dublin where Wicklow native Claire Lee will be speaking. In this weeks article on Silicon Republic Claire comments on the representation of women in the Blockchain space.
The adoption of Blockchain in Ireland
This article in Irish Tech News reports about a recent study by a team at NUIG. This study examines organisational readiness in Ireland.
“We expect blockchain will significantly transform the traditional business operations of organisations across a multitude of industries such as health, food, financial and Government sectors in Ireland over the next five years. However, we have also identified a number of barriers which organisations will have to overcome such as the need for them to view blockchain as a separate entity to cryptocurrencies, a lack of technology workers who possess the requisite blockchain skills and competencies, and a lack of university level blockchain courses encompassing a number of core competencies identified in the study.”
Dr. Clohessy NUIG
https://irishtechnews.ie/blockchain-the-new-kid-on-the-irish-technology-block/
Blockchain and GDPR
The GDPR which comes into force in May has every company in Europe that deals with customer data scrambling to ensure compliance. What will this piece of legislation mean for Blockchain?
This weeks article in Irish Tech News outlines some of the challenges faced by organisations, and in my mind it reiterates how pointless permissioned ledgers are. Implications are organisations will have to start deleting blocks. How is that going to work? It kind of defeats the whole purpose of using a blockchain. Of course the there will be implications for decentralised open ledgers as a result of GDPR but I suspect it will not lead to deleting data from these blockchains.
Videos
The Crypto Divas
@jilliangodsil and Morgan Pierce bring us the good and bad news stories from the Week in Crypto.
Meetups This Week
There are some interesting meetups this week.
EOS Meetup
The second EOS meetup in Dublin is taking place on on Tuesday.
Dublin Crypto Talks
This week at Dublin Crypto Talks you can hear about Legal Aspects of ICOs and How Blockchain will change our lives
Dublin Blockchain Forge
This weekly meetup group is in the Crypto Cafe on Wednesday. For more information check out their meetup page
Recommended Reading
New to Crypto?
This article by Deloitte gives a great overview of the possibilities, and some of the industries that will be affected by it.
https://www2.deloitte.com/ie/en/pages/financial-services/articles/blockchain.htmlFor information about upcoming ICO's @lukebrn, an Irish writer and ICO consultant, has started writing about them on Steemit.
https://steemit.com/@lukebrnFor an intro to Bitcoin, the book Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas Antonopoulos is a great place to start.
As always please add comments to this post with any upcoming events or developments that you think may be of interest to readers.
Previous Issues
- https://steemit.com/ireland/@eroche/crypto-in-ireland-issue-1
- https://steemit.com/ireland/@eroche/crypto-in-ireland-issue-2
- https://steemit.com/ireland/@eroche/crypto-in-ireland-issue-3
- https://steemit.com/ireland/@eroche/crypto-in-ireland-issue-4
- https://steemit.com/ireland/@eroche/crypto-in-ireland-issue-5
- https://steemit.com/ireland/@eroche/crypto-in-ireland-issue-6
- https://steemit.com/ireland/@eroche/crypto-in-ireland-issue-7
Thank you for reading this. I write on Steemit about Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Travel.
Thanks for sharing @eroche, very useful post,,👍👍
Great information, nice post, thanks...
Excellent informational post, thanks for sharing
Thank you for the informative news. This article saves us a lot of time browsing the web for these information. And, from the look of thing the upcoming days is gonna be very busy. Thanks again @eroche
This is top notch man, excellent info for the growing Irish crypto community. I'd be interested to hear your take on our Tax situation here, not to much information around it, especially for earned crypto in Ireland.
The tax situation is as clear as mud in Ireland. Not a lot of info out there.
This summary of a talk I was at in Dublin a few weeks ago may be helpful.
@paulag also wrote a good piece a few weeks ago on how she is dealing with her tax, relating to steem.
I haven't checked in a while but Arthur Cox had planned on publishing some papers, they seem to be the place to get answers in Ireland. If you have significant assets I would recommend contacting them for a consultation.
Thanks E, appreciate it man, you're a Steemit Wizard.
Thanks for doing the legwork to keep us up to date!