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  Erik Voorhees: My End Goal for Bitcoin Is the Complete Abandonment of Fiat Currency

  August 19th, 2015 by kyletorpey

  Shapeshift.io CEO Erik Voorhees participated in a fireside chat with Decentralized Applications Fund Managing Director David Johnston at the Texas Bitcoin Conference in late March. During this conversation, Voorhees revealed his overall goal for Bitcoin’s eventual level of success. Some say that Bitcoin only needs to keep existing on a daily basis for it to succeed over the long term, but Voorhees has larger ambitions for the digital money.

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  Erik Voorhees Explains Why Some Bitcoin Companies Are Blocking American Users

  October 14th, 2014 by kyletorpey

  Although Americans generally believe that they live in the home of free markets, the United States’ role as a leader of economic freedom has been declining for decades. The United States ranked 12th on the latest version of the Heritage Foundation’s economic freedom index and is now relegated to the designation of “mostly free.” The myth of unbridled economic freedom in America is being exposed by Bitcoin. Read More
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  Bitcoin Is the Currency of the Private, Decentralized Economy

  October 3rd, 2014 by kyletorpey

  Bitcoin makes the private, decentralized ecommerce economy possible. Now that value can be transferred in a censorship-resistant manner, nothing is stopping the creation of services for private forms of communication and finance over the Internet. Read More
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  How Louis C.K. Could Make Millions More by Selling His Specials Via Bitcoin

  September 23rd, 2014 by kyletorpey

  When it comes to monetizing online videos, Louis C.K. is an innovator. In 2011, he decided to distribute his new standup special on his website, downloadable for $5. . . . He was able to bring in more than $1 million in sales in less than two weeks during his experiment. . . . It could have turned out even better with the help of Bitcoin.

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