Брайън Армстронг говори за Биткойн и началото на Coinbase

10 години по-късно.

В четвъртък (3-ти януари 2019 г.), на 10-ия рожден ден на най-голямата криптовалута, Брайън Армстронг, съосновател и главен изпълнителен директор на Coinbase, обясни в Twitter, как е навлезнал в Биткойн, как се заражда името на обмена му и защо все още вярва в огромния потенциал на BTC.

Армстронг не е особено популярен сред някои членове на крипто общността, поради подкрепата му на Роджър Вер и BCH. Може би има смисъл Армстронг да реши да използва този повод, за да се обърне към общността и да обясни, че той все още има много любов и уважение към флагманската криптовалута.

Армстронг започна поредицата от tweet-ове по следния начин:

1/ Today is a big day for Bitcoin, as it marks 10 years since the Genesis Block. Some people think I don’t like to talk about Bitcoin (?), but today I have a few words to say

— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) 3 January 2019

2/ I read the Satoshi Nakamoto white paper for the first time in 2010, after seeing the link on Hacker News while I was home for Christmas https://t.co/4pE007fv4p I couldn’t stop thinking about it for the next 6 months and re-read it a number of times.

— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) 3 January 2019

Той видял огромен потенциал за промяна на глобалната финансова система, давайки повече свобода на участниците ѝ.

3/ I got excited by the prospect of another global decentralized protocol (like the internet) that could create a more open financial system for the world. I had a hope that it could create more economic freedom https://t.co/DuTOX11jif

— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) 3 January 2019

4/ Most of my friends thought Bitcoin sounded pretty crazy, but something in my gut told me it was important. I wanted to do something to help make this technology easier to use and see if it could get wider adoption.

— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) 3 January 2019

5/ So I started tinkering on nights and weekends on various projects. The first part was a simple Bitcoin wallet for android https://t.co/ppKDoYnpSM

— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) 3 January 2019

6/ It helped me start learning about Bitcoin, but it was still too difficult to use (and buggy!). So I started working on a hosted wallet that I thought could reach more people, including writing a custom Bitcoin node in Ruby (my C++ wasn’t good enough).

— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) 3 January 2019

След това, той разказа как получава първоначалното финансиране за проекта си за Биткойн портфейл и как измисля името “Coinbase”. Първоначално нарича проекта си “BitBank”, но получава съвет да промени името, и по-точно да махне “bank”.

7/ This took ~3 months but helped me understand the protocol one level deeper. I applied to YCombinator with my idea and prototype, and their initial investment helped convince me start working on it full time!

— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) 3 January 2019

8/ The project was initially called BitBank (I liked how it alliterated – like Paypal, or CocaCola) but the lawyers told me not to use the word ‘Bank’ in the name. So I started brainstorming new names.

— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) 3 January 2019

9/ I happened to see the word ‘coinbase’ in the Bitcoin Wiki https://t.co/UlxV5UYRbh (it is a part of the Bitcoin protocol) and liked it. I purchased the domain https://t.co/MdoYuOx9xv a few days later for ~$1,800. Millions of customers later here we are.

— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) <a href="https://twitter.com/brian_arms tron g/ status /1080909418617696256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>3 January 2019

Армстронг, след това направи пет поредни tweet-а за Биткойн . В тях, той изрази любовта си за валутата и надежда за бъдещето на индустрията, която стартира с BTC.