Gavin Wood
Gavin Wood is the founder of Parity Technologies, the company behind Polkadot and the Parity Ethereum wallet. He previously served as co-founder and CTO of Ethereum.
Gavin Wood on Bitcoin
Bitcoin
Created by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009, Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer electronic cash system.
Bitcoin reviews by Gavin Wood
All Bitcoin reviews by expert Gavin Wood.
- 2015
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Gavin Wood on Bitcoin Founder of Parity Technologies
Bitcoin was an important part of getting this technology recognised, largely through the socially-sensitive MVP of a currency. However it didn’t really capture the imagination of developers in general.
Full review2015-11-18
- 2014
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Technology-rooted movements like Bitcoin have demonstrated, through the power of the default, consensus mechanisms and voluntary respect of the social contract that it is possible to use the internet to make a decentralised value-transfer system, shared across the world and virtually free to use.
Full review2014-04-02