Interview: Turning Data Into Value With Eric Weiss
Eric Weiss joined the "Bitcoin Magazine Podcast" to discuss BTC in 2014, his Bitcoin investment fund and onboarding Michael Saylor.Watch This Episode On YouTubeListen To This Episode:AppleSpotifyGoogleLibsynOvercastThis week on the “Bitcoin Magazine Podcast,” host Christian Keroles sat down with Eric Weiss, CEO of the Bitcoin Investment Group Fund (BIG Fund). Weiss was early to Bitcoin and saw its potential as an alternative store of value over the internet immediately and he was the person that helped introduce Michael Saylor of MicroStrategy to Bitcoin. Weiss and Saylor are long-time....
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The ability to pay one's bills using Bitcoin essentially allows for any item or service in the world to be paid for in Bitcoin. The possibilities are endless and this is exactly the service that Eric Spano, the CEO of Bylls, is providing for his fellow Canadians. Below is a quick interview with CEO Eric Spano of Bylls. Bylls provides Canadians with a way to pay their Bills using Bitcoin. When did you decide to pursue a Bitcoin Bill paying service? Around last March, I decided that I wanted to work on a project that would help increase Bitcoin adoption and utility.....
The Bitcoin Foundation has added two new high-profile members and experienced political operators to its team: Jim Harper and Amy Weiss. Harper has been director of information policy studies for the libertarian Cato Institute for almost a decade, while Weiss is a former White House Deputy Press Secretary. She currently runs strategic communications firm Weiss Public Affairs. Jim Harper will be the foundation's new Global Policy Counsel and he will work to identify political impediments to bitcoin adoption. Harper has plenty of experience in the field, as he served as counsel to various....
A nationally recognized class-action law firm, Berns Weiss LLP, has announced something they are calling the 'Digital Money Practice Group', an endeavor that seeks to helping the crypto-currency community in developing "beneficial products" for the use of consumers in financial transactions. Berns Weiss says this Digital Money Practice Group will be working with consumer protection agencies in order to create safeguards for consumers in this particular sector. "After having seen the destruction the current financial system has caused on good hard working Americans, I firmly believe that....