What is a decentralized money market and how does it work?
Decentralized money markets function without a custodian, allowing only the original user to withdraw funds deposited by lenders and borrowers. The seamless flow of capital between borrowers and lenders is a key aspect of a vibrant economy. Anyone with an extra asset can lend it to put their idle capital to work, while people needing it to grow business or meet operational costs can easily access it.Money markets are the platforms where borrowers and lenders can meet. Throughout history, money markets have been generators of economic activities. Though the structure of money markets has....
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Despite losing a considerable amount of money on the Mt. Gox exchange, Australian Bitcoin Association Vice President Pantelis Roussakis is convinced that crypto-currencies are the way of the future. “What I realized after Mt. Gox is that Bitcoin is about more than the money,” he said in an interview with the Coin Telegraph. “It is a protocol to apply to human society – it’s clean, it’s self regulating.” Roussakis, who delivered a TED Talk in late 2013 on the future of money, sees crypto-currencies as a way of adding value to personal interactions and volunteer labor. “There are real world....
OpenBazaar has raised US$1 million in seed funding with the help of Andreesen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures, and angel investor William Mougayar. OpenBazaar, which just launched its fifth beta release, is the much-anticipated decentralized market to bitcoin's decentralized money. Online commerce relies on many intermediaries, such as PayPal, but OpenBazaar allows users to conduct trade one-on-one with the help of notaries, multisignature transactions, and a reputation system. The seed funding will be used to pay the developers so that they can work full time on the project and speed up....
David A. Johnston, co-founder of BitAngels and serial entrepreneur, has a list of professional accomplishments too numerous to list here. His current work with decentralized applications and blockchain technologies includes serving on the board of the Mastercoin Foundation and managing the BitAngels DApps Fund I, and he also co-wrote the primary white paper on decentralized applications. We recently reached out to Johnston to learn more about his work. CoinTelegraph: How did you get started in working with, and helping develop the general theory of, decentralized apps? David A. Johnston: I....