Venture Capitalist P. Bart Stephens Wants Bitcoiners To Solve Spam

Venture Capitalist P. Bart Stephens Wants Bitcoiners To Solve Spam

P. Bart Stephens // Linkedin. Bitcoiners are ready to change the world. Anybody who has met one of the Bitcoin prophets has heard the spiel about how the legacy banking system is no good and it is time to revolutionize the system. P. Bart Stephens, managing partner of Blockchain Capital, has a more modest revolution in mind - getting rid of the spam in his e-mail's inbox. People with public facing email addresses know it all too well. A litany of spam e-mails can bombard an inbox, from penis enlargement, breast enlargement, money left for you in foreign banks, FBI, Treasury Department spam....


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