The Double-Spend

At the time of the bitcoin white paper's publication, I was building a company in the global mobile banking space.

Right in the bitcoin genesis block, Satoshi warns of bank bailouts.

That's what we are seeing now the emergence of bitcoin service providers.

Today, companies are building bitcoin services that range from exchanges, that serve as basic on and off ramps for transfers of value from legacy systems to crypto-based systems, and back again.

New companies are using bitcoin to rethink credit and lending, while others are using the technology to make creating and securing a digital identity more straightforward.

It's exciting to think about all that has been made possible - and will be made possible thanks to bitcoin.

Bitcoin gives us the ability to be build a future based on sound and programmable money.

In the future, bitcoin will make all kinds of financial innovation possible.

All made possible by bitcoin's programmable money attributes.

The programmable facets of bitcoin make these ideas possible, and the greatest part is that the consumer or investor won't even need to know that they are utilizing bitcoin.