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Vlad Costea
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Bitcoin Writer, Freelance
Romania
Beats
Biography
I like to write about Bitcoin stuff, hardware devices which enable personal sovereignty, and cypherpunk culture. This interest of mind stems from the disillusionment I've had with the financial system and the banking system from a pretty young age. I don't view Bitcoin as a factor for radical change that will overthrow our current institutions and power structures, but think it will build fairer relations with our governments and allow us all to negotiate our positions. Autonomy, privacy, self-sovereignty, independence, and freedom are five of the core values that I believe in. As a political science graduate, I'm not a fan of big government but can understand why we need minimal governments as Leviathans which ensure the application of laws. As a PhD candidate in political philosophy, I'm looking at how new technologies advance faster than law and ethics. Before legislators and philosophers come up with solutions, the questions to the problems have already changed. The uncertainty is just part of the journey.
Mostly Bitcoin
Sensationalistic, tabloid-style journalism. I also resent the dishonesty of the whole blockchain industry and will most likely stay away from hype pieces about it.
Content
By Vlad Costea Verified| Bitcoin Takeover@ Marko Tarman started mining Bitcoin in 2012 and hasn’t stopped hashing ever since. He’s witnessed the transition from graphics cards to FPGAs and then ASICs, he’s seen many companies and pools come and go, but ultimately he was there to observe the quick evolution from hobbyist mining to big business.
By Vlad Costea Verified| Bitcoin Takeover@ Use your ← → (arrow) keys to browseAdam Krellenstein is one of the 3 co-founders of Counterparty: a metaprotocol that launched in January 2014 in order to tokenize real world assets on Bitcoin. It makes use of OP_RETURN transactions in order to send small pieces of data which designate the existence of a specific token that has specific characteristics such as supply, description, name, and other metadata.
By Vlad Costea Verified| Bitcoin Takeover@ “I supported it [BCH] before Roger” – explains Corbin Fraser about 12 minutes into the interview, in an attempt to debunk the myth that Roger Ver might have created Bitcoin Cash. But the block size wars, sometimes referred to as the Scaling Wars, was an unfortunate event that took place between brothers who couldn’t agree on the way to go forward.
Company Info
Freelance
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De Pere, Wisconsin, United States