Interview: Texas Bitcoin Association’s Paul Snow
Austin, Texas’ bow-tied Bitcoin evangelist Paul Snow has been working with computers for more than 30 years. So perhaps we can forgive him for scooping up a bunch of Bitcoins back in 2011 at 77 cents apiece and then promptly forgetting about his investment until 2013. Does it need to be mentioned that a Bitcoin was worth considerably more than 77 cents by 2013? Since then, he has become a vocal proponent of the currency, co-founding the Texas Bitcoin Association and helping organize last month’s Texas Bitcoin Conference. We had a chance to speak with Paul Snow earlier this week.....
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The second annual Texas Bitcoin Conference opened its doors in Austin on March 27 and will run through March 29, 2015. CoinTelegraph had the chance to speak with Paul Snow, the organizer and founder of the event and President of the Texas Bitcoin Association. Snow recently held a reddit AMA session answering questions regarding his pledge to ride 20 miles from his home to the event venue on a unicycle. We spoke to Snow about his ride to support charities, this year’s Texas Bitcoin Conference, and what we will can expect from his Factom project in 2015. “The feedback was impressively....
The Texas Bitcoin Association will present the Texas Bitcoin Conference March 27-29, a technological summit to showcase new developments that support Bitcoin, cryptocurrency and its proliferation. The event will be held at Moody Theater, Home of "Austin City Limits Live," in Texas' capital city, and will spotlight the diversity of the Bitcoin community worldwide. "The Texas Bitcoin Conference is focusing on the blockchain and the many ways Bitcoin can impact finance, business and government beyond just by being a better payment rail," said Paul Snow, chairman of the Texas Bitcoin....
How will your garbage disposal know to trust your dishwasher? While the question might not sound serious, it's key to understanding the power of Factom, the much-anticipated blockchain-based recordkeeping network, according to its creator Paul Snow. "Devices have reputation," Snow explains. "If the garbage disposal keeps asking for power and the refrigerator never sees any power used, the fridge should think there's something wrong." What will settle this futuristic kitchen argument over power use is that the fridge has a dependable record of its past interactions with other appliances,....
We reported Tuesday that publishing giant Time, Inc. had begun accepting bitcoin payments for subscriptions to four magazines: Fortune, Health, Travel+Leisure and This Old House. “We believe this is an important step in helping the publishing industry understand and explore new business models that can be enabled with bitcoin,” Coinbase—which will process the payments—wrote on its blog. Ian DeMartino reported Thursday that the State of New York had eased up a little on what people and organizations would need in order to apply for proposed BitLicenses. “[NYDFS Superintendent Lawsky]....
The former congressman from Texas believes the government is “watching very closely” to see what happens with crypto. Former presidential candidate and congressman Ron Paul has been more outspoken about government oversight concerning Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in the last week, calling on people to “be vigilant.”In an episode of the Stephan Livera podcast released on Sunday, Paul said he was just as worried about authorities coming to “confiscate” his gold as he was about the confiscation of crypto assets. The libertarian noted that there had been instances of people "taking....