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CSA SPEAKER BULLETIN BLOCKCHAIN

                        Peter Vessenes

       DELUGE NETWORK ENABLES BITCOIN
         AND BLOCKCHAIN FUNCTIONALITY

Peter Vessenes, Managing                   exchange. It streamlines the transfer    and costing pennies, they will attract
Director of New Alchemy, a                 of Bitcoin to Ether, making it a quick,  industry and investment, which will, in
leading advisory group in the              cheap and one-step process. It backs     turn, bring increased functionality.
blockchain and tokenization                DBTC, the Deluge Bitcoin Token, with
industry, has announced he                 an equal amount of Bitcoin to allow
and a team of engineers are                the latter to act as if it is moving on
developing Deluge Network,                 the Ethereum blockchain.
the first service to allow users to
directly contribute Bitcoin to an          Deluge Network’s origins are in
ICO without an exchange.                   the difficulties people have with
                                           transferring Bitcoin, he explained. As
The continued volatility in                interest grows, more viable use cases
            cryptocurrencies exposes       develop and that increases demand
            many of the problems           for transferring and exchange
            preventing a greater adoption  systems. The Deluge process will be
 of the system. Mr. Vessenes has           inexpensive, direct, and extremely
 addressed one of them by founding         fast.
 the Deluge Network, the first service
 allowing users to directly contribute     That is why Ethereum-based smart
 Bitcoin to an ICO without an              contracts fascinate Peter Vessenes
                                           so much. Completed in mere seconds

                   Daniel Sieberg

The Increasing Momentum of Blockchain

                                           Having recently left Google,             better engage with an active
                                           Daniel Sieberg has become                community and ensure security
                                           co-founder and head of                   across the network. He recently
                                           journalism operations for Civil.         spoke to us about blockchain
                                           This venture has been created            and the pivotal role it plays in
                                           as a decentralised platform              ‘Civil’.
                                           for news (across mobile-first
                                           web and app) using blockchain
                                           technology with a structure to

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