Bitcoin Magazine reached out to AlphaBay to
get their thoughts on Bitcoin scaling and two privacy - focused altcoins: Monero and Zcash.
Not exact matches
Here is a post from Libertarian News that begins, «I recently
got into an argument over
on the Reddit
Bitcoin boards where I held the position that fractional reserve banking with
Bitcoins was not possible,» which sounds fun; he recants that view but does make what I
think is a very valid point:
Neal Stephenson's third novel, Snow Crash, had an enormous impact
on me (fast forward 20 years to Oculus Rift), and this post
got me
thinking about ways to use
Bitcoin to authenticate online dating profiles.
Books have natural defenders — certainly the author and his friends, but also if it is a book
on a cultic topic, such as gold,
Bitcoin, various schools of economic prejudice
thought, doomsday economics, THE ONE WAY TO INVEST, etc., etc., etc., you
get the mindless zombies partisans defending the cult.
With
Bitcoin prices smashing through one milestone after another and mainstream financial institutions like CME Group, CBOE, and Nasdaq preparing to offer
Bitcoin futures trading, you would
think that investors would be beating down the doors to
get in
on the action.
Bitcoin Magazine recently reached out to BitGo Engineer and Statoshi.info creator Jameson Lopp to
get his
thoughts on the possible privacy issues associated with the Lightning Network.
And while the Federal Reserve has been hands - off so far, top Fed officials
think it's increasingly inevitable that bank supervisors will have to
get a greater handle
on the issue of digital transaction systems like
Bitcoin.
Recently,
Bitcoin Magazine caught up with Airbitz CEO Paul Puey to
get his
thoughts on preserving...
While that is true when you are strictly in
bitcoin, it's worth maintaining some cynicism and
thinking about the costs involved in the «
on» and «off» ramp
getting from sovereign currencies into
bitcoin and back.
With the Lightning Network probably going to
get more airtime in 2018
on the BTC network, I
think this is going to start diminishing the
Bitcoin Cash conversation.
Meanwhile, CEO Lloyd Blankfein expressed his enthusiasm
on cryptocurrency, saying that «if
Bitcoin works, we'll
get to it», and added that he is now open - minded about it since a lot of assets and technologies which he
thought were «stupid and wrong» actually turned out well.
Doug French: Sure, and yeah, I
think it's a terrible place to be if you're a young person trying to start a life, start a career, and there are a lot of problems there, and that's opened the door for
Bitcoin, and I
think the timing has worked out right for a solution that's completely outside the state and state control, although now it's clear that the United States is trying to do all they can to regulate this at least
on a payment system basis, and by doing that they may
get some kind of control over this thing.