Tim Draper-Backed DataWallet Pays Users To Sell Personal Info To Advertisers

Tim Draper-Backed DataWallet Pays Users To Sell Personal Info To Advertisers

Tim Draper’s name will forever be entwined with Bitcoin as the person who bought quite a chunk of BTC auctioned off by the FBI in lieu of the Silk Road shut down. But what people tend to forget is that Tim Draper has his own entrepreneur training program called Draper University. And it is one the applications being developed at Draper University that piqued a lot of media interest. In this day and age of modern technology, most consumers are more than happy to view an advertisement or disclose personal information to use free services. As you would come to expect, major brands are eagerly....


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