Consensus 2015: Digital Gold and Wences Casares in the Spotlight
Two Consensus 2015 speakers, Nathaniel Popper and Wences Casares, are in the spotlight this week, mainly because of Popper's new book. We're also announcing the addition of Hernán Botbol, a co-founder of the hugely popular Argentinian social network, Taringa! Digital Gold, the book that takes a long, unflinching look at the individuals behind the rise of bitcoin, hit the shelves this week. We published an extract from Digital Gold detailing the inner workings of Charlie Shrem's BitInstant, which was a high-flying bitcoin startup with funding from the Winklevoss twins - until it all came....
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Xapo CEO, Wences Casares believes that bitcoin detains the much needed potential to become the new gold Standard; he firmly stated this in a video posted by Bigthink. Casares is an Argentinean entrepreneur with many years of experience with internet technologies and the gaming industry. In all these years of activity he gathered an enormous financial expertise. In a video session led by Bigthink, a Knowledge dedicated forum, he tells us about bitcoin and what it could mean for International ecommerce trading. Casares says that Bitcoin may be the most important social experiment going on....
CoinTelegraph's interviews series from a diverse range of movers and shakers in the world of Bitcoin continues with Xapo founder Wences Casares. Wences is busily involved in the development of one of the most promising innovations. With Xapo, a credit card has been released which is directly linked to a Bitcoin wallet, giving its users the ultimate flexibility when it comes to POS transactions. The idea is heavily focussed on public accessibility, and Wences is also involved in Endeavor, an organization helping entrepreneurs realize their potential. We caught up with him at Bitcoin2014....
Wences Casares, the CEO of bitcoin company Xapo, has begun legal proceedings against online identity firm LifeLock in response to a suit filed by the company which alleged contract violations against him and several Xapo employees. The cross-complaint filed by Casares at California's Superior Court on 24th July states:
As the Bitcoin AMA event is in full swing, the time has come to do a small recap on what yesterday’s participants had to mention. A lot of questions were asked yesterday, and most of them were directed towards either Wences Casares or Kristov Atlas. Oron Barber of CoinPoint.net participated as well, so let’s see what they all had to say. It is always....
Xapo CEO and founder Wences Casares explains the history of money in a Big Think video about Bitcoin. His explanation of the history of money is below. “Bitcoin is a new digital currency that is perhaps the best form of money that we have ever seen. It’s important because most of us don’t understand money very well and perhaps the concept that is harder for us to understand is that money is and has always been a ledger. …the best way to understand money is to understand the history of money.