bitcoin news for the week of Feb 20th with special guest Samson Mow!
Questions for Samson:
-How did you get into bitcoin?
-What was the decision process with regard to leaving BTCC and what will you mostly be up to now?
Topics:
-bitcoin has reached All time highs and is staying above $1k for longest stretch in history. What got us here in the first place and how long will this bull run last?
-R3 recently Admitted Defeat by releasing a blog post saying that they no longer need a blockchain. Is this proof that the 2017 is the year of bitcoin Not Blockchain?
-China announced that it’s developing its own PBOC backed Digital Currency. Does it stand a chance and does it threaten bitcoin?
-Brock Pierce announced his new ICO like VC Fund and will issue tokens as apart of a 50 million dollar USD fundraising round. Is this a good idea and will we be seeing much more of these in 2017 and beyond?
-With Segwit now signaling closer to 30% while bitcoin Unlimited is down to 16%, do we think segwit has an even better shot at being pushed through? Or is segwit doomed from the start?
-The internet recently experienced one of the biggest security threats in recent history with the Cloudbleed incident. Is this going to affect bitcoin, and how can we prevent user information from getting hacked?
Links:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-23/pboc-is-going-digital-as-mobile-payments-boom-transforms-economy
http://bitcoinist.com/brock-pierce-vc-fund-ico/
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