Interview with Wences Casares
CoinTelegraph's interviews series from a diverse range of movers and shakers in the world of Bitcoin continues with Xapo founder Wences Casares. Wences is busily involved in the development of one of the most promising innovations. With Xapo, a credit card has been released which is directly linked to a Bitcoin wallet, giving its users the ultimate flexibility when it comes to POS transactions. The idea is heavily focussed on public accessibility, and Wences is also involved in Endeavor, an organization helping entrepreneurs realize their potential. We caught up with him at Bitcoin2014....
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Wences Casares, the CEO of bitcoin company Xapo, has begun legal proceedings against online identity firm LifeLock in response to a suit filed by the company which alleged contract violations against him and several Xapo employees. The cross-complaint filed by Casares at California's Superior Court on 24th July states:
Xapo CEO, Wences Casares believes that bitcoin detains the much needed potential to become the new gold Standard; he firmly stated this in a video posted by Bigthink. Casares is an Argentinean entrepreneur with many years of experience with internet technologies and the gaming industry. In all these years of activity he gathered an enormous financial expertise. In a video session led by Bigthink, a Knowledge dedicated forum, he tells us about bitcoin and what it could mean for International ecommerce trading. Casares says that Bitcoin may be the most important social experiment going on....
As the Bitcoin AMA event is in full swing, the time has come to do a small recap on what yesterday’s participants had to mention. A lot of questions were asked yesterday, and most of them were directed towards either Wences Casares or Kristov Atlas. Oron Barber of CoinPoint.net participated as well, so let’s see what they all had to say. It is always....
Xapo CEO and founder Wences Casares explains the history of money in a Big Think video about Bitcoin. His explanation of the history of money is below. “Bitcoin is a new digital currency that is perhaps the best form of money that we have ever seen. It’s important because most of us don’t understand money very well and perhaps the concept that is harder for us to understand is that money is and has always been a ledger. …the best way to understand money is to understand the history of money.
Wences Casares, founder of bitcoin security company Xapo and serial entrepreneur is "obsessed" with bitcoin. "I truly believe that it may change the world more than the Internet did. I truly believe that [because of the] 4 billion people who live on cash today. It is the biggest step forward in the democratisation of money we've ever seen," he told CoinDesk. Widely referred to as the digital currency's "patient zero" - a term coined by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman - the entrepreneur is credited with spreading the word about the digital currency throughout Silicon Valley and reticent....