Bitcoin Sukses Bikin Anak SMU Ini Jadi Miliarder pada Usia 18 TahunBeritaReguler Jun 22, 2017 Erik Finman membuat taruhan dengan orang tuanya.Jika ia berusia 18 tahun dan sudah menjadi jutawan, orang tuanya tidak boleh memaksanya untuk kuliah.Beruntunglah, Finman telah berinvestasi bitcoin yang menyentuh nilai tertingginya sehingga ia tidak perlu kuliah.“Dengan bangga saya mengatakan, ‘saya berhasil mewujudkannya dan saya tidak akan kuliah’,” ujarnya seperti dikutip CNBC.Saat ini Finman memiliki 403 bitcoin dan ini nilai satu koin bitcoin adalah $2.700 atau sekitar Rp35 jutaan.Jadi total nilai bitcoin Finman mencapai $1,09 juta atau sekitar Rp10 miliar.Tak hanya Bitcoin, Finman pun memiliki investasi pada mata uang digital lainnya, seperti litecoin dan ethereum.Nilai mata uang bitcoin sangat labil dan bisa turun drastis.Seorang pengamat industri teknik memprediksi nilai satu koin bitcoin bisa mencapai $2.800 bahkan $100.000 pada dekade ini.“Jujur, nilai satu koin bitcoin bisa naik 200 ribu dolar AS hingga satu juta dolar AS,” ujar Finman.Finman mulai berinvestasi bitcoin pada Mei 2011 atau pada usianya yang ke-12 dengan modal $1.000.

Modal itu ia dapatkan dari pemberian nenek dan saudaranya, Scott.Finman menjual investasi bitcoin pertamanya pada akhir 2013 dan kala itu nilai satu bitcoin adalah senilai $1.200 atau sekitar Rp15 jutaan.Finman pun sangat frustrasi dengan pendidikannya di SMU dan pernah meminta izin orang tuanya untuk bisa keluar atau drop out pada usia 15 tahun.“Kualitas sekolah SMU saya sangat jelek.litecoin threadments commentsNilai Tukar Bitcoin Anjlok 500 Dollar AS dalam Satu Hari, Kenapa?bitcoin qt block sizeJun 13, 2017E-Commerce Jadi Faktor Penguat Industri Retail Indonesia di Tingkat Dunia Jun 8, 2017Situs ini Tawarkan Informasi Fluktuasi Bitcoin secara Real-Time Jun 2, 2017Alasan Investasi Bitcoin Sangat Menguntungkan May 22, 2017WannaCry: Ransomware yang Gagal Total May 18, 2017Dua Raksasa E-Commerce Tiongkok Siap Investasi di Go-Jek dan Tokopedia May 4, 2017ethereum check address balance

For a better experience on Facebook, update your browser.Editor’s note: Sandrine Ayral has been involved in the Parisian startup ecosystem for a few years, working for startups, a VC fund and TheFamily, a startup accelerator.She joined the bitcoin sphere for good last February when she joined Coinbase‘s remote team for a few months, and is now working on a new cryptocurrency project.bitcoin asic miner 2015In the past few months we’ve been hearing a lot about how bitcoin’s underlying technology is going to revolutionize not only our monetary system, but also notary services, DNS, authentication, intellectual property ownership and data storage.litecoin price projectionsWhile most of the products and services that were supposed to emerge on top of the bitcoin protocol have yet to see light, there’s actually one application of the bitcoin protocol that has been developed by several bitcoin 2.0 startups: decentralized crowdfunding.armory bitcoin slow

Kickstarter, Indiegogo and all the other traditional platforms act as the trusted third party that enables a crowdfunding campaign.Thanks to them, a backer can feel confident that the money he sends to the platform for a specific project will be effectively sent to the selected project if the target amount of the campaign is reached – or that the money will actually be sent back if the campaign fails.In exchange for his money, the Kickstarter investor gets access to a pre-order or T-shirts and other various “goodies.” Crowdfunding platforms powered by blockchain technology remove the need for this trusted third party.They allow startups to raise funds by creating their own digital currencies and selling “cryptographic shares” to early backers.In more intelligible words, this means that investors in a crowdfunding campaign get tokens that represent shares of the startup they support and can actually benefit from the token value appreciation.You would never see an Oculus Rift situation with such crowdfunding platforms.

This is why the bitcoin community refers to bitcoin-powered crowdfunding as real crowdfunding.Enthusiasm around these projects is also tied to the fact that these platforms would be a real source of investment for other types of blockchain-powered applications and would help with the funding of bitcoin infrastructure.Swarm, Koinify and Lighthouse are three decentralized crowdfunding platforms that have generated quite a buzz in the bitcoin community and actually received funding for their development in various forms.Swarm used its own crowdfunding platform to raise funds in July and received $1 million from backers.The platform focuses on projects based on blockchain technology for now.It provides crowdsourced due diligence on each entrepreneur and team its platform backs to eliminate potential scammers.Swarm just opened applications for the first five projects its platform will support, which will be presented at a demo day on November 5 in Silicon Valley.The company also “soft-launched” an incubator in Palo Alto to host bitcoin 2.0 projects: just like startup accelerators or incubators are a source for quality deal flow for a VC fund, building a bitcoin 2.0 incubator for Swarm seems like a smart strategy for the platform to spot interesting projects and encourage them to use its blockchain technology.

Another decentralized crowdfunding platform, Koinify, has just raised $1 million from IDG Partners, Brock Pierce’s AngelList syndicate and zPark Ventures to fund its development and build an easy-to-use interface.Koinify is focused on funding very specific projects related to blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies: decentralized applications, smart corporations, crypto infrastructure to make access to cryptocurrency easier.Mike Hearn, a BitcoinJ developer, developed Lighthouse, a crowdfunding application of the bitcoin blockchain that was more specifically built to fund bitcoin core development, lobbying and community involvement and — like Swarm and Koinify — next-generation bitcoin projects.Hearn won a $40,000 bounty offered by self-proclaimed bitcoin millionaire and entrepreneur Olivier Janssens.True enough, for now most bitcoin-powered crowdfunding platforms don’t focus on consumer projects and are only going to appeal to bitcoin technology-savvy investors.Even if not mainstream, targeted projects by these platforms still deserve attention.

They’re all based on one core principle and change of paradigm: switching from centralized to decentralized models and removing usually costly intermediaries and trusted third parties.A few examples of these projects are collaboratively owned IP and autonomous agents.With collaboratively owned IP, instead of patents owned by huge corporations, patent pools can be owned by whomever holds a particular coin.With autonomous agents, picture self-owned hardware and/or software that is able to survive by selling products and services for bitcoin or another cryptocurrency and using the proceeds to pay for their own costs.Based on this principle, you can imagine a delivery service via self-owned quadcopters – yep, just like in a sci-fi movie.The benefit of such a model is that resulting services are cheap because they don’t have many operating costs.Mike Hearn, who designed Lighthouse, presented this futuristic idea quite extensively in his speech about the Future of Money at the Turing Festival in 2013.

Crowdfunding powered by blockchain technology holds two promises: short term it’s an appropriate way for the decentralized bitcoin ecosystem — whether it being bitcoin as a currency or all the different applications based on its protocol – to fund its core development, and actually address a few scalability issues.In the long run, it will give the opportunity to individuals to take part in actual rounds of early-stage investment and to actually benefit from valuation appreciation.A few issues need to be addressed around blockchain-powered crowdfunding, though: How will the different decentralized crowdfunding platforms deal with the SEC?There’s a real question around the legality of offering tokens of equity to individuals.For example, Swarm is exploring reciprocity licenses.Another concern startups using decentralized crowdfunding might have revolves around later-stage investment rounds: Will more traditional VCs be deterred from investing in a company that has sold a share of its equity via a crypto-token mechanism?