Biggs' Bitcoin Bunk
John Biggs has a writing problem. It's terrible. I too know manias. I see them most often among writers who have a mania for writing even when they have nothing to say. Such is the case with John Biggs' recent Bitcoin's Image Problem. First off, Bitcoin's image problem is evident to anyone watching the mainstream media's portrayal of BTC as the domain of....
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Biggs is an associate fellow at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School, guest lecturing on blockchain technology and digital assets.
Why did one of TechCrunch’s longest-serving editors leave a media giant for a bitcoin startup? For outgoing East Coast editor John Biggs, the answer is that he’s been leading one already in his spare time for the last year. Peer-to-peer payments startup Freemit has been Biggs’ passion project since December 2014, and the company has since raised more than $150,000 from angel investors, according to data from Crunchbase. Still, Biggs is just now making the leap to Freemit full-time, leaving his job late last month at a company he’d been with for nearly 10 years. According to Biggs, it was....
John Biggs is a New York-based writer. After spending years as a programmer, Biggs decided to become a full-time journalist. His work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Gizmodo and Men's Health. Biggs is currently an editor for TechCrunch and the CEO of bitcoin stealth startup Freemit. In this piece he details why he thinks bitcoin will eventually succeed. A week ago I was in Belgrade watching a panel on "blockchain." The makeup of the panel was typical: a young, plugged-in VC, an older banker guy and a crypto-anarchistic dude in a T-shirt. It was like watching a....
Bitcoin remittance startup Freemit is officially closing its doors, two years after it first began an effort to build a remittance service. CEO John Biggs, a former editor for TechCrunch, said that the decision to shutter the operation came after a "perfect storm" of a lack of a viable product to show investors and, consequently, the inability to raise funds. Though Biggs said he’s not disillusioned with the technology as a result of the experience, he warned that he believes bitcoin entrepreneurs are giving up control of a technology meant to empower consumers to large banks.....
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