Chamath Palihapitiya to Speak at CoinSummit San Francisco
Noted early tech entrepreneur Chamath Palihapitiya has been added to the speaker list for CoinSummit San Francisco, an upcoming two-day, invitation-only event to be held on 25th and 26th March at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Palihapitiya, one of the largest individual bitcoin investors and a prominent early executive at Facebook and AOL, joins an already impressive lineup of industry talent that includes keynote speaker and early software pioneer Marc Andreessen. Naval Ravikant, founder of AngelList. Chris Larsen, CEO of Ripple Labs; and Nejc Kodrič, CEO of bitcoin exchange....
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In a wide-ranging, pointedly honest and often funny on-stage interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek writer Brad Stone at CoinSummit San Francisco on Wednesday, 26th March, venture capitalist and former Facebook and AOL executive Chamath Palihapitiya reflected on the future of bitcoin and on the changes the bitcoin ecosystem is undergoing right now. Though he had just flown in from Toronto for day two of CoinSummit San Francisco, Chamath Palihapitiya immediately opened his fireside chat on 26th March with a quote that arguably summed up the feeling of the conference, saying "I feel like I've....
Whenever a bit of bad news hits the Bitcoin community, there’s always at least one individual who pops up and claims that “this is actually good news.” In the case of the IRS ruling on Bitcoin, that lone individual is Chamath Palihapitiya. Chamath is a well-respected former Facebook executive who doesn’t hold back his excitement when it comes to the possibilities created by Bitcoin. When you combine all of the holdings of all the different investment vehicles controlled by Palihapitiya, you get just under 100,000 bitcoins. While there have actually been a few others who have simply stated....
Former Facebook and AOL executive Chamath Palihapitiya has updated his projection on wallet downloads in 2014. In January, Palihapitiya, who is one of the largest individual owners of bitcoin, had predicted 11.5 million wallet downloads, but after the bitcoin price stabilised below $500 in the first quarter of the year, he has readjusted his forecast to 7.3 million. He shared this information via a tweet last night: If you are wondering why USD/BTC is depressed, here is our internal projection of wallets thru EOY 2014... pic.twitter.com/Fh23kFBolw. - Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) April....
Virgin Galactic’s chairman and CEO of Social Capital, Chamath Palihapitiya, says bitcoin has effectively replaced gold. Having predicted that the price of the cryptocurrency would hit $200,000, the executive said bitcoin’s “market cap is just going to grow.”
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