My Dinner with Adam Back, by Roger Ver
About a week ago, at the NYC Consensus conference I was fortunate enough to get to spend four hours over dinner with Adam Back of Blockstream, and Kristov Atlas of Blockchain.info My Dinner with Adam Back. I’ll do my best to summarize the topics of conversation over those four hours, although I’m sure I will miss some important points. Firstly, Adam....
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