Bitcoin's Killer Apps - A Look Into the Future
Adam Ludwin co-founded Chain.com, a bitcoin developer platform. Prior to Chain, Adam was a venture investor in companies including Vine, Slack, Kik, and Paperless Post. Here, he gives an overview of specific use cases for bitcoin that could become the digital currency's 'killer apps'. Most people think about bitcoin as an alternative to something they already know, as opposed to an enabler of something they never considered. In 1985, Steve Jobs was asked by a journalist for concrete reasons why anyone would buy a computer for the home. He answered that "so far, that's more of a conceptual....
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