For Us By Us: Bitcoin Needs To Move Out of the Crypto-enthusiast Box

For Us By Us: Bitcoin Needs To Move Out of the Crypto-enthusiast Box

Barriers to Adoption. The fascinating emergence of Bitcoin has been powered largely by a "for us by us" dynamic, the growth of specialists intimately involved with cryptography, embraced by highly technical people of a wider variety. Eventually this bubbled up to the venture capitalist world, with a concerted attempt to "bring Bitcoin to the masses,"....


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