Jeff Garzik Is the New Bruce Springsteen?
Bitcoin now enjoys celebrity status. The digital currency has got people from all industries interested. Bitcoin industry has attracted people holding various offices in both private and government sector to switch their industry. Executives, bureaucrats, law enforcement officials, media and publicity gurus, actors, politicians. You name it, they have done it - switched their careers to pursue the cryptocurrency industry. The latest one to do something like that is Michael Solomon. Who is Michael Solomon? Well, that's a fair question from most of us who do not care about the nitty gritties....
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10x Management, Bruce Springsteen’s promoter, seeks to “find the best contract tech talent and match them with the world’s most amazing companies.” Since 2011, this is what the firm has strived to do. Although the firm has been in the Bitcoin space for some time now, it made headlines with its recent additions of Jeff Garzik, a well-known Bitcoin entrepreneur. “We have been placing very high-level freelance developers with expertise in bitcoin for well over a year at this point and will continue to expand on that,”10x Founder Michael Solomon told CCN. The firm plans on working with....
While many people believe there is a divide in the Bitcoin community when it comes to the early-adopting libertarians and the new breed of venture capitalists, it seems that the real battle in the world of cryptocurrency is between Bitcoin and appcoins. Around the same time that Chris Odom, the creator of Open Transactions, was dismissing the relevance of altcoins at InsideBitcoins London, Bitcoin core developer Jeff Garzik was tied up in a public spat with the NXT community. As someone who has been suspicious of projects that create their own cryptocoins for quite some time, I'm happy to....
Bitcoin entreprenuer Jeff Garzik has started Bloq, a code-for-hire service to develop features for blockchain software and provide access to blockchain support, according to Bloomberg. The company charges $3,000 to $5,000 per month. PriceWaterhouseCoopers has agreed to sell the service to its customers. “That opens up a lot of doors for us early in the company’s lifetime,” Garzik said. “Companies know who to call at 3 a.m. if the blockchain is melting down.” Garzik modeled Bloq on Red Hat Inc., which helped businesses develop and deploy Linux and other open-source software. From working at....
Friday means the weekend is almost upon us, and what better way to celebrate the weekend than by hosting a Bitcoin AMA with Jeff Garzik and Marshall Long? Starting a 9AM EST, Bitcoin Core Developer and DSS CEO Jeff Garzik will be taking your questions and answering them. At noon, the shift will change, and FinalHash’s CTO Marshall Long will take the....
Bitcoin core developers Jeff Garzik and Gavin Andresen have responded to Mt. Gox's claims that there is a flaw in the Bitcoin software. Mt. Gox issued a statement this morning (GMT), revealing it had suspended bitcoin withdrawals indefinitely due to a previously known technical issue with its custom wallet implementation of the Bitcoin core protocol. Garzik stressed that Mt. Gox seems to be attempting to shift the blame for its recent failings onto Bitcoin and its developers. "First and foremost, bitcoin is not broken. There is no fundamental flaw in bitcoin," said Garzik. The #bitcoin....