Plan B News

Tether, Paolo Ardoino speaks about Plan ₿: “Lugano is an ideal context for innovation”

Local ticinese newspaper laRegione publishes an interview with the CTO of the company that, in March 2022, launched Lugano’s Plan ₿ project together with the Municipality “I am Italian: my parents come from a small village near Alassio, in Liguria. I’ve always been a computer enthusiast, I started programming at the age of 8, and now that I am 38, perhaps, I can say I have some experience in the field. In general, I have always been attracted by disruptive technologies and, in order to understand them, I studied mathematics applied to computer science at the University of Genoa, where I worked as a researcher

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What is Plan ₿ Spring School and how to enroll to it

The B4B project, which will train mostly local professionals on the use of Bitcoin and blockchain in their businesses, after just becoming official, almost went sold out   Officially launched on March 10th, with 30 slots available; sold out just six days later and relaunched with a further 30 seats that are already selling out: we are talking about another important educative component among those envisaged by Lugano’s ₿ Plan, i.e. the B4B – Blockchain for Business – or Spring School, aimed at those who, thereabout Lugano, deal with economics, finance and law.    B4B is the result of an agreement signed by the City

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One year of Plan ₿: news, reactions and pictures

On Friday March 3rd, at the Lugano Exhibition Centre (Padiglione Conza), the City (see Photo Gallery) celebrated the first 365 days since the start of its Plan ₿ initiative, announcing many novelties for the second year of activity of the project, born in collaboration with Tether, including: The opportunity for citizens and residents, starting in April 2023, to pay taxes and municipal services in Bitcoin, Tether (USDT) and LVGA; The launch of a Spring School (21 and 28 April, 12 and 26 May 2023), in collaboration with USI, SUPSI and Franklin University Switzerland, which will help local professionals explore how blockchain technology can foster their

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