Sentences with phrase «early enthusiasts»

Early enthusiasts for the crypto - currency were drawn to its revolutionary ideals of transparency and a lack of central or official control.

Despite Bitcoin's failure to achieve its initial promise as quickly as early enthusiasts expected, Coinbase, a digital money startup based in San Francisco, has continued to chug along, attempting to find its footing in a market defined less by everyday consumers than by speculators and aficionados.

The Soviet Union, like the US and Britain, was an early enthusiast for the fast reactor: it built its first prototype in 1956.

There's little evidence that it's effective, and some early enthusiasts have become disillusioned.

Librarian Nancy Pearl was an early enthusiast of The Hare with Amber Eyes, by Edmund de Waal, (Pbk, Picador, 8/23; Hdbk, FSG, 2010), calling it the best memoir she read last year.

Canada was an early enthusiast for the Kyoto Protocol.

One early enthusiast was Edward Teller, an émigré Hungarian physicist known in America as the «father of the hydrogen bomb», and often cited as an inspiration for Dr Strangelove.

At the time, corporate vice president of Universal Store at Microsoft said that it usage of the technology to expand, remarking that «while not mainstream, [the use of digital currencies like bitcoin] is growing beyond the early enthusiasts».