Bringing Programmability to Bitcoin | Pantera
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Bringing Programmability to Bitcoin | Pantera
There are several companies, including Abra, Circle and Coins.ph, that want to allow people to use Bitcoin as a payment rail or
Richard Jacobs • Bitcoin, Ethereum, & Blockchain: Surprising Insights from 200+ Podcast Interviews of Industry Insiders
Celo is based on a belief that programmable money will unlock new economic models, and that changing the features of money (which is possible because money’s just a technology) can lead to a more beautiful world. And it’s a bet that mission-aligned builders will care as much about a Layer 1’s community as they do its tech specs. When everything is ... See more
Packy McCormick • Celo: Building a Regenerative Economy
BTC has a strong case for being digital gold – a "pet rock" that is highly valuable but static. I believe ETH has a more dynamic future as a censorship-resistant, programmable store of value underpinning a much larger digital economy by providing permissionless settlement, DA, and execution.
HackMD: Your Collaborative Markdown Workspace for Knowledge Sharing
As crypto matures, we should expect these composable smart contract building blocks to start getting used outside of the crypto community. Eventually, developers will be able to add just one line of code to add a full decentralized marketplace to a video game, or another line of code to allow merchants in their ecommerce store to earn interest on t... See more
Linda Xie • Composability is Innovation - a16z crypto
Yet many other cryptocurrency believers, including a cross section of techies and businessmen who see a chance to disrupt the bank-centric payments system, are de facto chartalists. They describe bitcoin not as a currency but as a payments protocol. They are less concerned about its appeal as an intrinsically valuable thing and more with the underl
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