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Future of Money & Technology Summit Summary: Bitcoin Exposed

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Picture by Michael O'Donnell The Future of Money & Technology Event  held earlier this month in SF Japantown, featured talks from mobile payments to a futurist panel discussion on money moderated by Dan Robles . But, Bitcoin is just the hottest thing in the bar right now as far as chatter goes. Recently, it has cooled in value from a high of $1278.00 on Dec 1 to $706.96 at time of press). We present excerpts from the morning session on Bitcoin from Micky Malka of Bitcoin foundation and Carmen Medina of Deloitte Consulting. Check it out.

Three Startups Addressing Money Ecosystem Challenges

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Liberty Madison (#ThatTechGirl) and Greg Viloria  (SocialGreg) visited the annual  Future of Money & Technology Summit last week in San Francisco Japantown. As you can imagine, a lot of Bitcoin talk was dominating the air there but we found three startups in the eCommerce ecosystem moving the dial upwards challenging the existing money system -- frictionless payments ( @Pay ), personal finance management ( Nerd Wallet) and cyber-security ( Socure ). Take a look at what our stalkers #ThatTechGirl and SocialGreg found.