CUTTING OUT THE MIDDLEMAN: INTERVIEW WITH DAVID A. JOHNSTON
David A. Johnston, co-founder of BitAngels and serial entrepreneur, has a list of professional accomplishments too numerous to list here. His current work with decentralized applications and blockchain technologies includes serving on the board of the Mastercoin Foundation and managing the BitAngels DApps Fund I, and he also co-wrote the primary white paper on decentralized applications. We recently reached out to Johnston to learn more about his work. CoinTelegraph: How did you get started in working with, and helping develop the general theory of, decentralized apps? David A. Johnston: I....
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I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with David Johnston, the executive director of BitAngels, which is a network of investors that was sporadically formed a couple of weeks ago during a San Jose technology conference to create the first ever angel investment network for Bitcoin startups. David hopped on Skype with me after having just flown into Mountain View, California for the week, where he was staying at an AirBnB location he dubbed the "Zen Pad". "AirBnB is part of the share economy," he stated enthusiastically. "You rent out your place to travelers and they pay you like a....
The lucky winners of the upcoming Texas Bitcoin Conference Hackathon could walk away with up to $1m thanks to David Johnston, co-founder of BitAngels, a bitcoin-oriented angel investor group. While it might sound like a very generous gesture on Johnston's part, he views it as a rather prudent investment instead. The Hackathon will be held on 5th - 6th March in Austin, Texas, with the CEO taking to reddit to explain his plan in an AMA. There was no shortage of questions - after all, we are talking about a potentially life-changing sum of money. Kickstarter-style fundraiser. Instead of....
One time-tested measurement of an industry's promise is the amount of investment capital flowing into new ventures in the space, and now angel investor group BitAngels has closed a new fund that highlights the bright future of digital currencies and decentralised applications. Billed as the world's first "distributed veteran entrepreneur and angel investor group," BitAngels has been an active organization in the bitcoin community, having invested $7m into digital currency startups since its inception in 2013. BitAngels co-founders Michael Terpin and David Johnston sat down with CoinDesk at....
Super Sunday is a well-known occurrence in the sports industry, but it can happen in the world of Bitcoin and digital currency as well. On this glorious Sunday, the largest Bitcoin AMA in history keeps trucking along, and no less than three people will answer your questions. David Johnston, Sam Lee, and Valery Vavilov are poised to engage with the....
Factom has raised 579 BTC, or roughly $140,000, through the first day of its crowdsale. The blockchain-based record-keeping network launched its crowdsale yesterday at 17:00 UTC on decentralized application platform Koinify, offering 2,000 Factoid tokens (FACTs) for every 1 BTC pledged by prospective users. The pricing values Factoids at the same initial asking price as Ethers, the token sold during decentralized publishing platform Ethereum's 2014 crowdsale that eventually garnered upwards of $12.7m. Factom Foundation board chairman David Johnston pointed to the fact that the project had....