James V. Barcia:
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/james-v-barcia/9/1a8/473https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=27344535&authType=name&authToken=WV0d&trk=prof-exp-snippet-endorsement-nameNick Spanos
CEO/Founder
I know Nick since 1997 and since then he's supported the aims we both share in terms of partisan politics, community engagement, advancement of charitable causes and faith, as well as appropriate response, healing, and rebuilding in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Nick and I have even worked in real estate together and from my perspective, to great effect. Nick is perhaps the smartest person in terms of overall knowledge base who've I've worked with if I were to add up our tenure working directly for or in the service of Gov. George E. Pataki, President George W. Bush, Rep. Ron Paul, Sen. Rand Paul, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, and the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America including HAH Abp. Bartholomew's complex visits. This is to name only a few such people and entities who and that are fortunate to have had Nick working with them, or to benefit from his (endlessly generous) volunteerism.
September 10, 2013, James worked with Nick at Public Appeal
Apologies for the cache URL, but the article was available prior to me penning this thread, but is no longer available:
http://www.coindesk.com/inside-new-yorks-bitcoin-centre/http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vf45Bv6GgS0J:www.coindesk.com/inside-new-yorks-bitcoin-centre/+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=usThe Bitcoin Center NYC opened at the start of 2014, thanks in large part to co-founder Nick Spanos.
Spanos proved to be very mathematically and technologically minded from a young age. He went on to study computer science at the New York Institute of Technology, only to drop out and pursue real estate after making $80,000 in the field over just one summer.
Spanos became a spirited entrepreneur throughout his life, founding multiple businesses and websites. He later went on to work for the Ron Paul presidential campaign, working in database management and analysis, and is a self-identified libertarian.
It was through his political involvement that Spanos met James Barcia, the Communications Director of the Bitcoin Center, and heard of bitcoin itself for the first time.
“We were talking about competing currencies in one of those conventions,” he recalled, “and someone brought up bitcoin – this was back in 2010.”
Considering his background, it was no surprise that bitcoin would capture his interests. If there was a stereotypical list of attributes that bitcoin supporters commonly share, Nick Spanos has all of them, as a self-made, libertarian tech entrepreneur.
Of the Bitcoin protocol, he said:
“Truth has a place in our society now. There is now, for the first time, universal, chronologically verifiable truth in the monetary system. As a protocol, it’s better for us”.
How was it that two outspoken dudes never mentioned Bitcoin prior to Q3, 2013, even though they learnt it about back in 2010, and, by one account, Nick was supposedly involved with Bitcoin at the onset back in 2009? In fact, Nick knows so much about Bitcoin, he was going to verse a OWS dude on Bitcoin, for he's the expert on it, but had to revert to notes to relate a bicycle story involving he and his dad for 14 minutes during an 18 minute speech on...wait for it...Bitcoin.