Don't judge a self-proclaimed bitcoin maximalist by his trollish tweets.
Rochard believes bitcoin is becoming that global store of value and transactional medium for the digital world, especially since other cryptocurrencies appear to be "Heavily dependent" on it as a reserve currency.
So while other blockchain experts are launching multi-coin crypto hedge funds or freelancing as consultants for the tokenized fundraising projects known as initial coin offerings, Rochard just launched Bitcoin Advisory LLC in Brooklyn, N.Y. - call it the maximalist consultancy.
Rochard wants to provide a variety of prospective investors with unadulterated insight into bitcoin.
Of course, as a bitcoin maximalist Rochard isn't completely objective.
Rochard said his fidelity belongs solely to bitcoin and related projects like the lightning network, the technology many bitcoin developers are working on which looks to push transactions off-chain so that bitcoin can scale to more users in time.
In his new role, investors who want to run their own bitcoin nodes will find Rochard to be a particularly eager educator.
Because the open-source wallet relies on Bitcoin Core nodes, which broadcast and tally transactions for bitcoin miners to validate, in contrast to lighter software wallets like Jaxx or Bread, which only facilitate transactions, Rochard said this is the best way to be fully in control of your money.
More recently, Rochard and Goldstein started the Noded Bitcoin podcast, where they interview leading developers and bitcoin community influencers.
"There's so much to research in bitcoin alone. After five years, I'm still peeling the bitcoin onion."
Maximalist for Hire: Bitcoin Believer Pierre Rochard Starts Advisory Firm
Publicado en May 11, 2018
by Coindesk | Publicado en Coinage
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