Roger Ver and Erik Voorhees Back Bitcoin Wallet KryptoKit
KryptoKit, the browser extension that allows users to send bitcoin payments and encrypted messaging in just a couple of clicks, today announced three big names from the bitcoin world would join the project "in ownership roles": Roger Ver, Erik Voorhees and Vitalik Buterin. The move is sure to raise the profile of Toronto-based KryptoKit, which launched in Las Vegas last month. The browser plugin has a five-star user rating on the Google Chrome Web Store, but had been fairly low-key in its marketing tactics until recently. All three names have worked on numerous bitcoin-related projects and....
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Three big names in the bitcoin world are joining a start-up that hopes to bring simplicity and ease-of-use to bitcoin. Reports indicate that Roger Ver, Erik Voorhees and Vitalik Buterin are taking ownership roles at Toronto-based KryptoKit - a bitcoin wallet in the form of a web browser plugin (along with a slew of other option). Quick profiles: Roger Ver is known for his seed investments in BitInstant and Blockchain.info - along with being a huge proponent of the bitcoin movement. Eric Voorhees co-founded Coinapult and has investments in a number of bitcoin-related projects. And Vitalik....
Predictably, negativity in regards to Bitcoin is gaining traction as the fiat valuation of it loses the same, and Erik Voorhees, the man behind Coinapult and SatoshiDice you may remember from The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin, has (generously) taken the time to respond to a particularly denigrating article in mainstream website the Daily Dot's supplement The Kernel. The article he is responding to is by Gary North, a person Voorhees feels should know better. If you're wondering why Erik would bother to respond to such an uneducated position, it's because "Bitcoin is ultimately a battle of....
Two of the very early pioneers of Bitcoin who have founded and funded a lot of startups within the cryptocurrency ecosystem, Erik Voorhees and Roger Ver, sit side by side to discuss the problems of Bitcoin and what the future holds for the cryptocurrency. Among the problems of Bitcoin, scaling and recognition seems to be prominent. The debate among developers on the status of the block-size has been going on for some time. With the continuing increase in transaction confirmation time, and the consequent effect it is having on the acceptance of Bitcoin as a currency by businesses, experts....
Erik Voorhees joined the "Bitcoin Magazine Podcast" to discuss his history with Bitcoin and outlook on the larger decentralized finance ecosystem. The post Interview: What Bitcoin Started With Erik Voorhees appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
Bitcoin has several persistent myths about it that just refuse to die. Stefan Molyneux and Erik Voorhees dispel the myths and talk about the reality of the predominant cryptocurrency. Erik Voorhees is the co-founder of Coinapult, worked as Director of Marketing at BitInstant, and was founder and partial owner of the Bitcoin gambling website SatoshiDice. Follow him on twitter at: https://twitter.com/ErikVoorhees