Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof on Hard Fork, Hurdles to Adoption and Future of Bitcoin
Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof, the woman who built her own nation on the Blockchain and got married on it, tells Cointelegraph on Bitcoin’s being at a crossroad. In the midst of discussion whether the pioneer cryptocurrency should fork or not, there have been talks of its eventual decline. But Susanne, founder of BitNation, is convinced that the Ecosystem is improving by the day. She opposed the view that Bitcoin is in decline as a result of its current obscure direction. Susanne does not see Bitcoin as a failure at all. On the contrary, she thinks it has been a massive success so far. She....
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Some experts believe that the unique qualities of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin may be the answer to ending involuntary taxation as well as the nation state sooner rather than later. Stopping the monster in his tracks requires starving it of what it survives on. Cointelegraph sourced the views of experts within the crypto landscape about whether this assertion is in the affirmative. Beginning of the end. As P.J O’Rourke noted, giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. They will mess up, and alas that is what we are witnessing today....
Bitnation was recently in the news for assisting European nations to process the refugees entering Europe and providing support to these refugees as well. We caught up with Ms. Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof, the founder and CEO of Bitnation to know more about the organization, projects they are currently involved in and her future plans for Bitnation. NewsBTC: Please tell us a bit more about Bitnation. Susanne: Bitnation is the world's first Virtual Nation providing real governance services. It's powered by the blockchain technology, which enables us to provide the same services traditional....
Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof, the charismatic leader of Bitnation, gave a talk at The Global Summit in San Francisco from Copenhagen, using a telepresence robot. The Beam telepresence technology by Suitable Technologies allows a remote operator to drive a wheeled robot with a display unit for the operator's head video feed, and interact with on-site participants in realtime. "The BeamPro fulfills the need for shared awareness between people, places, and things. It embodies the remote individual, or pilot, with his or her authentic presence, and immerses the individual using reliable....
Blockchain governance system Bitnation came under the spotlight this week when its crowdsale was unexpectedly postponed. Its vending partner, concerned about a negative reaction from Australian policy makers, withdrew the day of the launch. Additional internal conflicts cast further doubt over the future of the project as a whole, and CoinTelegraph reached out to managerial staff for further information. However, notably absent from the earlier interview was Bitnation co-founder and CEO Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof. Now, she speaks to CoinTelegraph about the crowdsale, which despite many....