An In-Depth Interview With Brock Pierce
Brock Pierce is a well known member in the Bitcoin community. Pierce is a venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur that has been involved with online technology and software since the 90’s. Pierce has been involved with Bitcoin since the beginning, taking on many roles in various organizations throughout the industry. Most notably, Pierce is the....
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Blockchain Capital Managing Partner Brock Pierce said in a recent interview that although there are legitimate concerns with the current state of Bitcoin mining, the blockchain-focused venture capitalist indicated China’s stranglehold on the mining process will not last forever. Pierce was interviewed on the most recent episode of This Week in Startups, where he was asked about the issue of bitcoin mining centralization. The source of the question appeared to be Mike Hearn’s farewell Medium post in which the former Bitcoin developer claimed the Bitcoin payment network is “controlled by....
Venture capitalist Brock Pierce has been named chairman of the board of directors at the Bitcoin Foundation, the digital currency's oldest trade organisation. Pierce was elected to the position by a 3-0 vote Tuesday, with board member Olivier Janssens abstaining. The 34-year-old was nominated by board member and BTC China CEO Bobby Lee, with whom Pierce was elected to the foundation in May of 2014. In interview, Pierce indicated that his role will now be to work with newly appointed executive director Bruce Fenton as he shapes the nonprofit's 2015 strategy and works to create consensus on....
While many people take the view that Bitcoin is dying or failing due to its current issues with governance and scalability, Blockchain Capital founder and managing partner Brock Pierce believes this current controversy is a good sign. In his view, the fact that there are so many transactions on the network should be seen in a positive light because it’s a sign of the technology’s success. In a recent interview with Epicenter Bitcoin, Pierce explained his point of view on the Bitcoin block size debate and how it is currently causing uncertainty in the market. The key point that Pierce, who....
Welcome to the CryptoCoinsNews weekly altcoin news update, where we examine important altcoin stories that have gone under-the-radar. This week's article examines Brock Pierce's resignation from the Mastercoin Foundation and a huge Bitcoin bounty offered by a Nxt user whose coins were hacked. Brock Pierce Resigns from Mastercoin Foundation. Controversial Bitcoin Foundation board member and Realcoin founder Brock Pierce has resigned from his position as Mastercoin Foundation board member. Pierce was one of Mastercoin's first investors and has been very involved in the project's development.....
On May 9th, the Bitcoin Foundation (TBF) announced election results for two new board members to replace Charlie Schrem and Mark Karpeles. Only 102 Bitcoin Foundation members were eligible to vote, of those 31 abstained. Bobby Lee, head of BTC China, was brought on board with 79% approval. Also elected, with 65% approval, was KnCMiner.com co-founder, Brock Pierce. KnCMiner is currently the sole purchaser of TBF's $100,000 platinum membership. As per TBF's announcement, Pierce co-founded three other Bitcoin companies and "angel-invests" in Bitcoin startups. Conspicuously unannounced was....