Interview with the Founder of the Bitcoin Center NYC Nick Spanos
Nick Spanos is the founder of Bitcoin Center NYC, the city’s only brick-and-mortar organization dedicated to further adoption of Bitcoin. From the center’s 40 Broad Street headquarters 100 feet from the NYSE, Nick directs all center functions including technology, finance, operations, and communications. Nick’s prior experience runs the gamut of commercial fishing, entertainment, real estate, philanthropy, and politics. Nick built his first computer in 1978 and is an Internet entrepreneur many times over. He first learned about Bitcoin in 2009 and today he has a wealth of contacts in the....
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Bitcoin Center NYC has announced that it is now accepting applications for a startup incubator that will help entrepreneurs fund and manage new digital currency ventures. While the launch has brought new attention to New York's first brick-and-mortar bitcoin resource center, co-founder Nick Spanos explained that the announcement simply adds formal branding to the work already being done by his team at 40 Broad Street. In an interview with CoinDesk, Spanos moved quickly to separate his new incubator from more conventional offerings, describing the program as a showcase for talented....
The company that operates Bitcoin Center NYC has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after months of legal wrangling. The World Bitcoin Association (WBA) has been embroiled in a legal dispute with its landlord over site issues at 40 Broad Street, which houses Bitcoin Center NYC. The organization claimed between $100,000 and $500,000 in liabilities, and up to $50,000 in assets, according to court documents obtained by CoinDesk. The filing also states that the company expects to have enough funds to pay unsecured creditors, with a creditor meeting scheduled for 17th April. The legal....
Bitcoin is preparing for a supersonic bull run towards $70,000 in April. So believes Nick Spanos, co-founder of Zap.org — a decentralized oracle data feed startup. In an email interview, the market analyst said that he sees the bitcoin price higher due to two very supportive developments in the cryptocurrency market. First, Mr. Spanos noted, […]
Bitcoin’s price goes up once regulatory setbacks are digested by the crypto community, Zap Procotol co-founder Nick Spanos says. China’s crackdown on Bitcoin (BTC) mining continues to face determined responses across the crypto ecosystem. One of the first BTC exchange operators and co-founder of Zap Protocol, Nick Spanos, said that the crackdown only proves Bitcoin is an unstoppable machine “if the world’s second-biggest economy can’t crush, devalue and manipulate Bitcoin.”Noting that the crackdown is increasing scarcity due to there being fewer miners relative to the transaction volume,....
We've heard plenty about the bitcoin recent job fair that took place in Silicon Valley - which saw over 300 attendees, and large bitcoin-related companies looking to hire some of the best and brightest in the community. That job fair is now headed toward the East Coast of the United States. The Bitcoin Center NYC has partnered with Coinality and the Plug and Play Tech Center to host a job fair in the heart of New York City's financial district, just one hundred feet away from the New York Stock Exchange. Taking place from 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm on the 28th of June (Saturday), prospective job....