Andrew Barisser Defends The Pure Bitcoin Blockchain
Andrew Barisser of Assembly Coins makes strong arguments for building on top of the pure Bitcoin blockchain, rather than creating alternatives. Recently he wrote an open letter to Reddit, where he argued that Reddit should stick to a pure Bitcoin blockchain approach to building their planned cryptocurrency initiative, rather than going sidewise with alternative approaches. Now, probably prompted from the recent news about the Medici stock exchange that is being developed with Counterparty technology, Barisser wrote a post to criticize Counterparty. Also read: Andrew Barisser's Open Letter....
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A new project called ‘The Bitverse’ looks to creating websites that cannot be censored or suppressed by anchoring itself to the Bitcoin blockchain. Author, physicist, ex-Peace Corps member and current software developer Andrew Barisser shared a blog post today on Medium where he talks about his latest project to build what he sees as the beginnings of a decentralized website based on the blockchain. The working title of the project so far is “The Bitverse.” The goal, as Barisser stated, is to: “Construct(ing) a decentralized website in such a way that it cannot be censored or suppressed.....
Founded by Paul Snow and Peter Kirby, Factom is a 2.0 solution built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain. By distilling data to single hash and inserting it into the blockchain via a transaction, Factom allows the verification of any kind of record or information. NewsBTC's Andrew Wagner managed to get a hold of Peter Kirby to ask him a few questions about what's going on with their new technology, and its likely future. Andrew Wagner: first, tell us a bit about your background. How did you come to be doing Factom? Peter Kirby: I'm a long time entrepreneur and have been in sales/marketing for....
Andrew Karam isn't your average nine-year-old. While most kids his age ask for the latest must-have toy for their birthdays, Andrew requested shares in Apple. His parents bought him $120-worth and Andrew watched the price of the stock with interest, checking regularly whether his investment had gone up or down in value. Andrew's dad, Steve, later told him about bitcoin and the schoolboy was well and truly hooked. "He was incredibly excited about it and asked if I could take his Apple stock and cash it out for BTC, so I made him a paper wallet and ... bought a bit at a time during the....
Andrew Barisser is a software and cryptocurrency engineer at Assembly. Previously he was a grad student in biophysics at UCSB, where he says a "gnawing fascination" with bitcoin led him to software. In this article, he shares lessons learned from creating his own bitcoin trading bot in the "shark infested waters" of Coinbase's new exchange. I've recently started trading bitcoins algorithmically on the new Coinbase exchange. After reading about high-frequency trading in the book Flash Boys by Michael Lewis, I decided I'd give it a shot myself, albeit in a clumsier, more amateurish way. The....