It's actually an entire ecosystem supporting blockchain based startups (or any other startups in the fintech sector, as far as I understand).
I've been fortunate enough to meet and actually have a conversation with the legendary John McAffee, this spring at a conference in Bucharest, and I'm very grateful for that. As expected, one of the red lines of our conversation was about privacy and security in the era of NFC and unprotected smartphones or spy devices sold at every corner of the street. In the light of this, I can speculate that at least some of the startups founded and mentored in this "crowdchain accelerator", will focus on security and privacy.
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@dragosroua I am excited to see this level of support rally behind crypt
Nice post.
What do you think?
Ecosystem, you got that right! Nice sharing. Cheers!
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it can be good for the market , if mainstream company starts to join blockchain ship
So, it's the same John who has founded the famous antivirus program, correct? Happy to see the accelerator active on the
Nice post..
What do you think?
Let's see how it goes.
Is there any way a powerful actor could subvert or sabotage the ecosystem? It seems on the surface that this ecosystem has centralized characteristics that could be targeted...
Good to see more support. I worry about his stability and ability to run a company though.
Do I correctly recall that McAffee was outed for writing (and releasing) virii that his software then touted it's ability to remove? While this is not an act of a stupid person, it seems to call into question his ethics, which would make me reticent about investing in a platform he was involved in.
can you fix the first sentence, I'm not getting it he released a virus that his software was able to remove got it.
Yes. I have read that he released virii into the wild that his software was already able to defeat. A great marketing ploy, but lacking in ethical substance, I reckon.
I am reminded of Microsoft railing against hackers, so angering them, and then making software easily hacked, ensuring that the hax0rs would pirate it in droves, develop an ecosystem of software around it, and then convince their clients to use it because they already depended on it. Perhaps the greatest marketing ploy ever implemented in the history of computing.
you mean after they stole the personal computer from apple :D just know that there are many stories floating around. I haven't read anything so I haven't got anything to say.
Yes, exactly!
The hype will be through the roof! Regardless of what he's offering
Yeap, agree, the man is a legend.
Thanks for sharing this information !
I almost called it :D comment here thanks for sharing :) projects started from big names tend to go ballistic, BAT comes to mind, 24 second ICO :D
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