Sun Nov 29, 2015 1:32 am

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Do you own any bitcoins? About how much part percentage of your assets is bitcoins?



How often per month or week do you use bitcoins for purchases?



What are your thoughts about the whole bitcoin scaling debate, particularly in relation to the social aspect?



What attracted you particularly to bitcoin in the beginning when you started becoming 'obsessed' with it?



What was the reason (or attraction) for starting to work with Airbitz?



I have a stealth address with Dark Wallet. When will people be able to send bitcoins to it from Airbitz?

Yes I do! I get paid in bitcoin so I try to hold as much as I can except for the few bills I can't pay directly with bitcoin. I try to support bitcoin accepting merchants and services that take bitcoin so the ecosystem will continue to grow. I use bitcoin a few times a week for purchases. With Gyft, FoldApp, and Purse.io it makes it really easy.So the bitcoin scaling debate is interesting. Socially speaking, I think some changes will eventually have to be made for more people to efficiently use bitcoin but I would hope for the utmost caution to be taken regarding any changes. I wasn't to happy to see speech censored around this topic because it is important to debate the merits of the ideas proposed.What attracted me to Bitcoin was the real world way I saw it help people in the activism world, specifically Wikileaks and Antiwar.com, and how it helped people in need. It continues to assist those who have been targeted by the government such as in the escort service industry and even small business owners who want to avoid higher credit card fees (and the lack of protection that goes with that).The potential for Bitcoin to disrupt traditional remittances markets is fascinating to me. There are so many markets Bitcoin can shake up that I think we are just seeing the beginning.The Airbitz team has been acutely focused on making this technology usable to the most amount of people while also remaining true to what I think are core philosophies laid out in Satoshi's White Paper. It helps that people I trust spoke so highly of the team even before I was employed there and I got to meet Paul last year and was super impressed by how much they had already done to encourage bitcoin use in the San Diego area. I had heard so many good things and when I started interviewing with team members I knew we were on the same page from a practical and ideological standpoint.So currently our app doesn't support sending to stealth addresses but we already use Libbitcoin which has native stealth address support. And we're open source so people are able to add support if they would like.