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In the longterm for Bitcoin, Gox needed to go away.
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Bitcoin
Needed
Go Away
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Most 'digital currencies' are not really digital currencies at all.
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Digital
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Unfortunately, slow and steady in any financial market is actually impossible.
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Unfortunately
Slow
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Whenever the price of cryptocurrency is rallying, people start spending a lot more.
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Rallying
Spending
Lot
Start People More
Cryptocurrency
Price
Start
Whenever
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When we started ShapeShift, a future world of natively digital assets was very theoretical.
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Assets
Digital
Theoretical
Shapeshift
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Like the Internet, Bitcoin will change the way people interact and do business around the world.
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Business
Bitcoin
Internet
People
Way
World
Will
Like
Change Business World
Around
Interact
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Cryptocurrencies allowed non-custodial exchange, without users having to sign up or create accounts.
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Accounts
Users
Exchange
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Bitcoin will hit thousands of dollars per coin, because it's worth at least that much, or it's worth zero.
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Zero
Bitcoin
Dollars
Hit
Coin
Per
Least
Thousands
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Digital currency is now a misnomer for Bitcoin. It can be used as currency, but it can be used for many things.
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Bitcoin
Currency
Digital
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Bitcoin is very ideologically fulfilling, it's my form of political activism, but it's also a huge business opportunity.
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Activism
Bitcoin
Fulfilling
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Mt. Gox was a teachable moment for everyone in the Bitcoin community, and ShapeShift has innovated these problems out of the picture.
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Bitcoin
Picture
Shapeshift
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The big exchanges that hold customer deposits are a big target for hackers, and unfortunately, most bitcoin exchanges store user funds.
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Bitcoin
Hackers
Target
Customer
Exchanges
Unfortunately
Funds
Hold
Store
User
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ShapeShift has no user accounts, signup, or registration process whatsoever. But it's faster and far more convenient than traditional exchanges.
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Accounts
Convenient
Faster
Registration
Exchanges
Shapeshift
User
Whatsoever
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Bitcoin is open-source, global, and requires no permission from anybody, so thousands of entrepreneurs are gravitating in and building their vision.
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Bitcoin
Permission
Vision
Entrepreneurs
Global
Requires
Thousands
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ShapeShift, like SatoshiDICE before it, demonstrated how an old business could operate in a brand new way because of the properties of cryptocurrencies.
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Brand New
Business New Way
New Way
Operate
Properties
Shapeshift
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The number of industries, communities, habits, traditions, and even interpersonal interactions that Bitcoin has the potential to revolutionize is massive.
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Bitcoin
Interpersonal
Massive
Communities
Number
Habits
Industries
Interactions
Revolutionize
Traditions
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I have no problem with the financial industry inviting the Trojan Horse of blockchain technology into their walled garden. Because I know how powerful the technology is.
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Garden
Horse
Inviting
No Problem
Blockchain
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The value of Bitcoin is astronomical, but the price goes all over the place as a million buyers and sellers try to figure out what that value is and how likely it is to manifest.
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Bitcoin
Buyers
Manifest
Sellers
Astronomical
Figure
Likely
Million
Price
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I was very excited about a currency that was not controlled by a central government, that could be a free market currency. That was all the incentive I needed to dedicate my life to it.
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Government
Central Government
Controlled
Currency
Excited
Free Market
Needed
Life Free My Life
Life Government Free
Free
Life Government My Life
Central
Could
Dedicate
Incentive
Market
My Life
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You cannot have an asset that goes up in price 1% every month or 1% every six months or every day without people starting to start thinking it'll do the same tomorrow, so that's why these bubbles form.
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Bubbles
Month
Asset
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If you see a market that has slow and steady growth long enough, you'll start to front-run it, and that slow and steady growth will start turning into steeper growth, and that will accelerate the process.
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Accelerate
Steady
Turning
Slow
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I'm much more confident with crypto than with banks or fiat currency because I can actually control it, and the money supply is transparent, stated up front. It makes online shopping a lot easier and a lot safer.
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Money
Currency
Easier
Online
Shopping
Transparent
Control
Lot
Actually
Banks
Confident
Crypto
Fiat
Front
Makes
Safer
Stated
Supply
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Credits in your PayPal account are really just USD-backed - they are not a unique currency themselves. Other 'digital currencies,' such as Facebook Credits, can be created out of nothing and without limit, so they are not serious money.
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Currency
Digital
Paypal
Account
Credits
Facebook
Limit
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The Dwolla incident was to be expected. The government will go after sites that it thinks are supposed to register as money transmitters. Some Bitcoin companies will register as such, and some won't, but business will carry on regardless.
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Bitcoin
Business Money Government
Carry
Companies
Incident
Regardless
Sites
Supposed
Thinks
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Bitcoin is two things which share a name. One, it's a payment system, and two, it's a currency. You use the Bitcoin payment system to send bitcoins as currency from one account holder to another. The transfer is instantaneous, carries no fee, works anywhere in the world, and is private.
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Bitcoin
Currency
Instantaneous
Payment
Share
Two
Account
Anywhere
Name
Works
Carries
Fee
Holder
Private
Send
System
Transfer
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Bitcoin is absolutely the Wild West of finance, and thank goodness. It represents a whole legion of adventurers and entrepreneurs, of risk takers, inventors, and problem solvers. It is the frontier. Huge amounts of wealth will be created and destroyed as this new landscape is mapped out.
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Finance
Amount
Bitcoin
Destroyed
Goodness
Huge
Landscape
Legion
Problem
Risk
Wealth
West
Whole
Wild West
Absolutely
Adventurers
Out
Wild
New
Created
Entrepreneurs
Frontier
Takers
Huge Amounts
Inventors
Mapped
Represents
Thank
Thank Goodness
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