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?
News and announcements were quiet this week but as usual we will bring you links to some local publications and meetup groups.
It is Tech Week in Dublin. On Wednesday and Thursday the Dublin Tech Summit is in town at the Conference center in Dublin. I was planning on attending but it's sold out.
This event will not be focused on Crypto but it would be interesting to hear about technology developments particularly in Industries such as finance where we will see Crypto featuring more and more.
As part of Dublin Tech Week (http://dublintechweek.com/events-programme) there are more events including an interesting one tonight at the Dutch Embassy. This will focuses on Blockchain and Fintech.
If you are going I would love to hear about your experience.
There are some interesting meetups this week.
As part of Tech Week the Dutch Embassy is hosting a networking evening on the theme of Blockchain & Fintech. This is on tonight (Tuesday).
Also this evening (Tuesday) Hashgraph Ireland are hosting an evening with Jordan Fried from Hedera Hashgraph @ Deloitte Blockchain Lab.
This weekly meetup group is in the Crypto Cafe on Wednesday. For more information check out their meetup page.
On Thursday you can hear about Monero, Spindle and more at the Dublin Crypto Talk in Irelands very own Silicon Docks.
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.html
For information about upcoming ICO's 
https://steemit.com/@lukebrn
For 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.
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