Bill Nye the Science Guy: "I Want Bitcoin In My Analog Watch"
Earlier today, Bill Nye returned to Reddit to do another Ask Me Anything (AMA), a popular question answer session between the community and a famous individual or organization. Other notable AMAs include President Obama's appearance on Reddit, which put record strain on Reddit's servers. The Bitcoin community has recently had several AMAs within their own subreddit, from Bitcoin thought leaders like Patrick Murck and Gavin Andresen. In Bill Nye's AMA, he answered one question on Bitcoin that revealed the celebrity's opinion on the future of commerce and Bitcoin's space in it. Also read:....
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Governments all over the planet are scared shirtless of Bitcoin because it interferes with their ability to watch us from the cradle to the grave. But who said that they have the right to watch us in the first place? It's time to flip the tortilla. The politicians and their hordes of bureaucrats are our employees, paid with our money, and they are supposed to do what they are told. If someone has the right to watch, it's us who have the right to watch them. Let's force Big Brother to operate on a public blockchain where we can watch him. Let's Block-Chain Them! Fairy tale? Science fiction?....
A system of unified digital identity can replace lengthy approval and authentication chains with a simple DLT solution. It is a given that connected devices need reliable, distributed ledger, technology-based digital identity solutions. That is an essential requirement for the Internet of Things (IoT). In the machine economy, devices must be able to recognize and communicate with one another; robust identity management solutions are key to effectively securing data and processes. But what about the multitude of analog “things” all around us? Surely they can also benefit from the advent of....
Braintree's chief executive Bill Ready has followed bitcoin for years, but for most of that time, he saw it as an interesting computer science experiment. Today, however, Ready is convinced that bitcoin has a future in a payments space that's increasingly showing its age. Ready's bullishness on bitcoin doesn't stop there. He wants Braintree, which owns the buzz-generating mobile wallet Venmo, to help take bitcoin mainstream. "We can start to ... take [bitcoin] to the mainstream because we know what it takes to be compliant with regulatory bodies. From a computer science breakthrough to an....