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timryan

Hi Patrick, thanks for participating. It's encouraging to see how focused you are on this space. What originally incentivized you to start using Bitcoin personally and with your business?

Do you pay any suppliers and employees with bitcoin, or have plans to? If so, what % range do they accept ...

timryan

Hi Michael,

Thanks for participating in this.

As a security expert, can you explain what you see as the biggest threat today to bitcoin? in the next 3 years?

How often do business or government bodies contact you or C4 for expertise, and what types of questions are they interested in learning?

timryan

How do you see international adoption of bitcoin payments in developed countries by region?

Is there more growth for payment services in developing counties for BitPay? What type of plans are there to continue expanding services?

timryan

Hi Charlie,

Can you speak to the resources being devoted to Coinbase Merchants. Is there any focus by the engineering team to building this out more? How has this been received by other developers and the merchants who use these services?

How many merchants use Instant Exchange to convert the ...

timryan

HI Marshall,

You have an interesting story. What does a typical mining operation look like?

How do miners decide which transactions they mine? Should any of the incentives be split up between the nodes so they are compensated for the network?

Can miners choose to "vote" which version of the ...

timryan

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for participating. How much power do the miners have in attacking the network? Either for their own interests or colluding together? What security safeguards are there preventing a majority stake?

Thank you!

timryan

What was the reception in the Middle East and Dubai? Is there any appetite for Bitcoin or development in the Israel startup community?

Thanks!

timryan

HI Ben thanks for participating!

How important is the tradeoff between security and simplicity?

One of the things difficult about new technology adoption is making new users comfortable trying it out, layer that with the psychological and financial aspect of Bitcoin and it makes it very ...

timryan

Hi Jeremy,

Thanks for participating. A few questions outlined below:

Do you see any new use case examples with how consumers at brick/mortar checkouts exchange digital value beyond a mobile device to some POS display, as currently this experience is performed with credit card processors?

Are ...

timryan

Thanks for doing this Gavin,

What are the realistic possibilities for a 51% attack as the ecosystem becomes more mainstream with more diverse resources and interests at stake?

timryan

That's a solid community and list going! See if 21 CEO Balaji Srinivasan can do the AMA.

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