2013-06-06 Bitcoin as an API for Money: Creating Money-As-a-Service

[lewisg]

http://blog.programmableweb.com/2013/06/07/bitcoin-as-an-api-for-money-creating-money-as-a-service/

Antonopolous makes an interesting point: this is all possible because the trust that any financial system requires to function is built differently. Rather than exclude those who shouldn’t have access, Bitcoin works on trust by “computation,” a network that is always cross checking itself through its participants. Access to the APIs is available to everyone.