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Abra and Streamium have caught the attention of renowned cryptographer Nick Szabo. They have developed bitcoin-based platforms to disrupt billion-dollar markets in the remittance and broadcasting industries. If they successfully scale over time, Abra and Streamium are set to compete with major companies in their respective industries, such as Western Union, Twitch and Netflix.

Abra?
Like this Abra?:

http://oyster.ignimgs.com/mediawiki/apis.ign.com/pokemon-blue-version/5/5a/Abra.gif

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

Or this Abra:
https://www.goabra.com (https://www.goabra.com)

I am sure it's the latter, but why not use Bitcoin instead?

These guys like this type of technologies because it disrupts THE SYSTEM. Most of these guys, originate from the older hacker communities and if you read their posts on the old BBS's you find that they very opposed to centralization and government controlled entities. <We need more people like this, who think out of the box>
In my opinion, he is part of the Satoshi group. ^Hide^

 

Source?

Edit NM:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/37a6wd/nick_szabo_likes_abra_and_streamium/
https://twitter.com/NickSzabo4/status/602972847099654144

Is that twitter account actually his? For someone who likes his privacy I thought he might eschew social networks such as that.

The source is actually from this CoinTelegraph article which the op copied verbatim: http://cointelegraph.com/news/114403/why-nick-szabo-likes-abra-and-streamium

By the way, is there still no photo of nick on the interwebs? Such a coincidence that this guy is so secretive...

There's two or three pictures of him on the internet. The fist was a screenshot of him from a video in the audience of a conference I believe and the latest one is where he's posing with a group of others at some sort of bitcoin gathering. If he was that secretive he would have declined because I think that's the first photo of him that's appeared in quite some time.

Abra sounds really cool.


Obviously because not that many merchants accept Bitcoin yet. This is a great solution in the mean time that still uses the BTC technology and makes it stupid simple to move money around.

As coinspiracy pointed out there are a couple pics of Nick now, one apparently from ~1997 and another much more recently but clearly the same guy. I was skeptical of his identity but it seems he does exist as such.

Anyway, this doesn't mean much. He's a cryptographer, not an economist, not a VC, not a businessman. He might be extremely good at what he does, it doesn't make his opinion in every single field gold.

Barry Silbert seems to share Nick Szabo bullish mood on Abra, too. According to an Entrepreneur.com article (http://www.entrepreneur.com/video/246175) (forum thread: here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1073033.0)), in which he predicted Money transfer companies end: Barry Silbert has an interest in startup Abra, in which he has personally invested.

These are the two known ones:

Old:

https://i.imgur.com/00rWcy4.png

Recent:

http://randomwalker.info/misc/princeton_bitcoin_workshop_dinner.jpeg

I think if he was so secretive or was satoshi he would have refused or just walked out of having his picture taken at the Princeton Workshop Dinner. I'm not so sure that he's satoshi but I'm sure he influenced bitcoin in some way with his previous work.

Talking about BBS, Bitcoin is like BBS right now, thats why we are so early in the game that trying to talk about it with the average joe is pointless. It will take years until we have "instagram level" of mainstream Bitcoin, and by then, we'll all be retired with 6+ figure per BTC. Fuck those that decided not to listen and miss the boat, they don't deserve to benefit from it.