Antonopoulos Slams PayPal Bitcoin Saying it Isn’t Real Bitcoin

At his most recent talk in Toronto, Andreas Antonopoulos pointed out the folly of relying on tradition — particularly that of using identity verification — or what he calls the “means” that’s no longer needed to achieve the end in blockchain transactions. The End to the Means. On June 20-21, Mastering Bitcoin author Andreas Antonopoulos, gave yet another....

Bitcoin visionary Andreas Antonopoulos recently stated that blockchains would “suck” at doing the things the world’s biggest banks hope to achieve. Moreover, the futile effort of creating private blockchains is just one of the “five stages of grief” that traditional finance is going through as they come to grips with the open-access, decentralized,....

The biggest Bitcoin AMA event in history is still going on over at the Bitcoin.com forums. Over the past few weeks, a lot of Bitcoin industry experts have participated in this AMA session and answered questions from the community. The time has to come to recap some of these discussions, as we will look at what Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Roger Ver and Bobby....

There are more than just bitcoin price spikes and capital gains that stemmed from the ongoing currency wars. Bitcoin and its users are, in fact, on a bigger mission: providing refuge for currency war hostages. ‘Bitcoin Isn’t Just An Economic System’. The trajectory of bitcoin has changed over the years. In the beginning, people were curious about Bitcoin’s real-life applications. And the common answers from thought leaders would be in the area of remittance services and general buy-and-sell activities on the Internet. Indeed, these bitcoin applications hold significance importance in the....

According to Andreas Antonopoulos, Bitcoin and Ethereum are two synergetic platforms that can greatly influence the progress of cryptocurrency technology for real world applications. Ethereum, the smart contracts platform with ether as its crypto-token is one the leading cryptocurrency platform. As the platform reaches maturity, Ethereum has gained popularity in the recent days. The well-known figure in the cryptocurrency world, Andreas Antonopoulos is one of the select people who has known about Ethereum even before it was announced to the world by Vitalik Buterin. He has been a vocal....