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

Enerport

I have been hearing about upcoming ICOs in Dublin. Many companies have been working away quietly, developing business plans, building teams in secret and I am sure we will see many Irish based companies launch high profile ICOs in the coming months but this week it was Enerport from Galway that made the headlines.

Enerport were not launching an ICO but they announced what they were working on at an energy conference in Cork.

Peer to Peer Energy Trading...

Blockchain is set to revolutionise the supply chain Industry, probably its most promising use case in many ways, and Enerport sounds on the face of it like an extension of that idea. Enerport will allow energy customers to trade or gift their electricity.

• https://irishtechnews.ie/enerport-a-new-blockchain-energy-trading-project-launched/
• https://www.siliconrepublic.com/machines/blockchain-enerport-electricity-peer-to-peer

Crypto Divas

I am really enjoying this series and format by Hive account@jilliangodsil and Morgan Pierce. The show is a short 15 minute format with good and bad news stories from the Week in Crypto.

Crypto AM

The second show broadcast from Ireland this week was by the Crypto Coast/Crypto AM team from Dun Laoghaire . The focus of this weeks show was on Money.

• The team had two CEOs as guests; Charles Dowd from Plynk, an Irish based digital (not blockchain) provider, and Kevin Murcko from Coinmetro.
• Will and Luke also provided ICO news and research and there was some news from around the world.

Steem Dublin Meetup

On Friday I met Hive account@jeffjagoe and his friend Hive account@brennanwalsh from the States who were visiting Ireland for St. Patricks day. This was an mini Hive account@steem-dublin meetup with Hive account@beanz, Hive account@misslasvegas, Hive account@ishtar and Hive account@sonicphoto at Against the Grain in Dublin. I got to show Hive account@jeffjagoe the app I am working on and I was delighted on the feedback at this stage of development.

Dublin Crypto Talks

This was the second meetup I attended by Dublin Crypto Talks. The topic discussed this week was "Cognitive Bias and Cryptocurrencies". The Speaker David raised many interesting points and the evening finished with a raffle for coins and a masternode for FreedPays (which I happened to win) as well as networking and some drinks.

If you want to learn more about Crypto in Dublin I would definitely recommend this group. A very friendly bunch and interesting topics at each event such as ICOs, News, Trading, Mining as well as Wokshops for people new to the space looking to set up wallets and generally get started.

• https://www.meetup.com/Dublin-Crypto-Talks/

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This Week

Dublin Blockchain Forge

This weekly meetup group is in the Crypto Cafe on Wednesday. For more information check out their meetup page

• https://www.meetup.com/Dublin-Coder-Forge/events/248029686/

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.html

• For information about upcoming ICO's Hive account@lukebrn, an Irish writer and ICO consultant, has started writing about them on Steemit.
  https://steemit.com/@lukebrn

• For an intro to Bitcoin, the book Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas Antonopoulos is a great place to start.

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

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Thank you for reading this. I write on Steemit about Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Travel.