Marc Andreessen, Satoshi Nakamoto Take Top Honors at Inaugural Blockchain Awards
Day one of the Bitcoin2014 conference in Amsterdam wrapped up with the inaugural Blockchain Awards. Hosts Nicolas Cary from Blockchain.info and Peter Vessenes from the Bitcoin Foundation announced the winners in 10 categories. Matthew Kenahan from The Bitcoin Society picked up two awards: one for the Most Impactful Charity and another one for the Bitcoin Champion. Andreas Antonopoulos originally won the latter, but passed on the award to Kenahan. The Bitcoin Society is dedicated to sharing and spreading information, education and awareness of bitcoin via guerrilla marketing, television....
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The two organizations, Blockchain and the Bitcoin Foundation are trying to award those entities that are encouraging users to adapt Bitcoin and helping out the digital currency big way. Now, the two organizations have introduced the inaugural Blockchain Awards. In an announcement they say that the first annual Blockchain Awards will be given in May. The announcement came when the two organizations said that they want to celebrate innovation and excellence in the Bitcoin community with the awards. Co-presented by the Bitcoin Foundation and Blockchain.info, this inaugural awards ceremony....
At Bitcoin 2014, the first annual Blockchain Awards has wrapped up, with a ceremony that honored recipients in ten different categories. The event was highly-anticipated - hosted by Blockchain.info CEO Nicolas Cary and Bitcoin Foundation Chairman Peter Vessenes. With further delay, here are the winners, as provided by bitcoin news website CoinDesk. Most Impactful Charity: The Bitcoin Society. Most Creative Video: I am Satoshi. Most Informative Podcast: Let's Talk Bitcoin. Most Influential Investor: Marc Andreessen. Best ATM Design: Lamassu BTC. Most Insightful Journalist: Ryan Selkis. Best....
Andreessen Horowitz Plans to Put "Hundreds of Millions of Additional Dollars" Into Bitcoin Start-Ups
Marc Andreessen Flickr/Joi Ito. Some interesting information coming from a Wall Street Journal report (paywall) surrounding venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and co-founder/partner Marc Andreessen (co-founder of Netscape Communications). The report, which makes note of the fact that Andreessen Horowitz has made investments of about $50 million in bitcoin-related products and services is planning to invest "hundreds of millions of additional dollars over the next few years." "I'm completely unfazed and plan to invest more," said Marc Andreessen on the topic to WSJ. Andreessen first....
Marc Andreessen helped start the Internet revolution when he co-wrote early web browser Mosaic and co-founded Netscape. Now he views bitcoin as the next technological revolution on the scale of the Internet. Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capital firm Andreessen runs with longtime collaborator Ben Horowitz, has invested about $50m in Coinbase and other bitcoin companies, and Andreessen recently vowed to invest hundreds of millions more in the space. Balaji S. Srinivasan is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and is a vocal bitcoin proponent. Srinivasan co-founded Counsyl, a genetic....
Just recently Andreessen Horowitz has raised a whopping 1.5 billion dollars to invest in the next big technological breakthroughs. This injection of capital into Andreessen Horowitz could mean big things for Bitcoin-related and distributed ledger technology startups and projects. Andreessen Horowitz Loves Bitcoin. Andreessen Horowitz is one of the....