Interview with... Augur
We recently caught up with Tony Sakich of Augur - here's what he had to say... First of all, tells little bit about what Augur is all about. Augur is a decentralized prediction market platform, the end result will be to change the manner information consensus is collected and aggregated. The bitcoin space is growing fast, where do you see Augur fitting into the overall infrastructure? Our goal it so supplement existing prediction markets with one that is decentralized which will increase the quality of potential outcomes. Is there anybody at the company that are users may be interested to....
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