Bitcoin Interviews Archive

Gavin Andresen @ Web Summit

The Profit Margin’s Jim Fitzpatrick and Bitcoin Core Developer Gavin Andresen took to the stage of the Money Summit on Thursday 5th November. It was a rapid fire fifteen minute talk, so this articles gives an outline …

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Sam Neville of Circle @ Web Summit

The Irish Time’s Pamela Newenhan and co-founder of Circle Sean Neville (who have a base in Dublin’s Guinness Enterprise Centre) took to the stage of the Money Summit on Thursday 5th November. It was a rapid …

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Paul Huey of Airbitz @ DIT, September 7th 2015

Recap of Paul Puey’s Airbitz presentation @ Dublin Bitcoin Meetup

A couple of weeks ago, we had a visitor to Dublin, Paul Puey of Airbitz, the bitcoin wallet company based in San Francisco. As with most of the local events these days, a call went …

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An interview with Blocktrail

So we’ve been very lucky to get some great detailed information on bitcoin mining pools from Dutch bitcoin company Blocktrail.com, which has enabled us to build up some good information on which mining pools have been mining …

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An interview with Armory Technologies CEO Alan Reiner

The main wallet we use here at BitcoinsInIreland.com for our bitcoins is the free open source Bitcoin Armory, which is a very secure desktop wallet, aimed at individuals and companies working with bitcoin who require …

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For the second fortnight, bitcoin difficulty drops, after briefly going over 40 billion difficulty

Where is Bitcoin in it’s lifecycle? A comparison with the games industry

If you have been paying notice to the bitcoin difficulty recently, something of a watershed moment has occured. After a year of endlessly increasing difficulty as newer, more powerful and power efficient bitcoin mining hardware piled into the …

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