Bitcoin is Teaching Realism to Libertarians': An Interview With Old-School Cypherpunk Vinay Gupta
As an old-school cypherpunk in the 1990s and one of the most active members of the E-gold community before this centralized precursor of Bitcoin got shot down, futurologist Vinay Gupta has been involved with digital currency for over fifteen years. He has also worked with the United States Departement of Defence on disaster relief and state failure....
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A number of influential industries have already dipped their proverbial toes into the cryptocurrency waters. One of the largest industries to flirt with Bitcoin in recent years is iGaming. Bitcoin or, more specifically, the blockchain technology that makes Bitcoin such an effective currency, is set to boom in 2016, according to cypherpunk Vinay Gupta. As outlined in our recent article on the subject of blockchain technology, the feeling among tech lovers and financial types is that Bitcoin investment could be set to increase markedly in the coming months. In fact, Digital Currency Group’s....
Vinay Gupta is basically a 21st-century Übermensch whose work and identity are not easy to pithily summarize. He’s a technologist, inventor, futurist, systems theorist, and global resilience guru whose life’s work focuses on how to ensure the long-term survival and flourishing of the human race. It was stimulating conversation about a wide variety of topics, including Ethereum, bitcoin politics, and basic human needs.
Tomer Kantor is a London-based film producer who, for the past three years, has been documenting the Bitcoin phenomenon under his “IamSatoshi” label. Throughout that time, he released the short documentary Bitcoin in Kenya and over 100 interview snippets — a number of which have gone viral in the Bitcoin world. At the Bitcoin 2014 conference last year, Kantor also won the first ever Blockchain Award for “most creative video” with the trailer for his documentary project Ulterior States. Now, after many hours of researching, filming, interviewing and editing, Kantor is finally releasing the....
Last month I attended an interesting Orlando Bitcoin Meetup. The Meetup took place at Bright Learning Academy, a school for special needs students that works with children who need an alternative to traditional school settings. The school takes a technological approach to learning. It's no mystery that kids learn to understand technology much more easily than we do. That's just the way things go. Bright Learning Academy is teaching money management and free market principles with Bitcoin technology. They did it before MIT. Last winter, school teacher Robert Lefebure began signing up....