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Saturday, December 20, 2014

Why Bitcoin Apps and Bitcoin Speculators Need Each Other

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Adam Ludwin co-founded Chain.com, a bitcoin developer platform. Prior to Chain, Adam was a venture investor in companies including Vine, Slack, Kik and Paperless Post. He holds a B.S. from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Harvard.

Here’s one way of looking at the bitcoin market:
  • Miners mint new bitcoins
  • Speculators buy/sell them
  • The price of bitcoin is affected
  • Miners with a marginal cost lower than the price of bitcoin keep mining
Here’s a visual representation of that story:

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