[2017-10-25] Steve Wozniak, Bill Barhydt, and Bobby Lee Promote Bitcoin

[moriskarlov]

The US leg of the Money 20/20 event, held in Las Vegas over the weekend, had guests Bill Barhydt of Abra, Bobby Lee, and Steve Wozniak all speaking about Bitcoin.

The Money 20/20 event, which runs from the 22nd through the 25th of October in Las Vegas, describes itself as a place “where technology meets money, money meets people, people meet ideas, and ideas become reality.” The event, now in its 5th year, made cryptocurrency headlines in particular with news of Steve Wozniak’s comments about Bitcoin, calling it better than gold. There were other prominent advocates of Bitcoin present too, including Abra’s Bill Barhydt and BTCC’s Bobby Lee.

Abra Founder and CEO, Bill Barhydt

Bill Barhydt recently made the headlines on Bitcoinist when Hollywood star and wellness blogger Gwyneth Paltrow became an advisor for the company. His company, Abra, uses smartphones to enable people to make payments in the currency of their choice, including Bitcoin, which is then given to the receiver in the currency of their choice. In the video below, taken from the Money 20/20 youtube channel, Barhydt talks specifically about Bitcoin, monetary liberalization, decentralization, and the smartphone payment revolution.

Steve Wozniak Discusses Bitcoin

Steve Wozniak was at Money 20/20 specifically to talk about AI. However, it was his comments about Bitcoin which caught the cryptocurrency headlines.

It’s not the first time either that Wozniak has talked about Bitcoin, telling CNBC that he has been interested in the currency for a long time and hoping to buy it when it was $70. However, after issues in that only certain banks at the time allowed such transactions to be made, he ended up investing when it was worth $700. Either way, as he himself admits, he “is way up.”

Of his purchasing of Bitcoin, Wozniak said:

    "It’s not that easy to do yet, but it’s getting there. I was just playing around trying out how to buy and sell stuff and I didn’t care I lost a ton of money, but now I’m way up."

http://bitcoinist.com/money-2020-steve-wozniak-bill-barhydt-bobby-lee-promote-bitcoin/

[akeegan]

Steve is way up AGAIN 

Glad to see all of these celebs getting into crypto. Only expands and grows the market.

[8270thNinja]

These people are pure angels to us. They are not like James dimon and Chinese Government who thinks Bitcoins are just worthless, We now have a list of Bitcoin supporters which names are familiar and also respected on their own field. Also, i cannot forget that John McAfee Loves Bitcoin.

[777Bitcoin]

This worth a read and how much bitcoin does Steve, Bill and Bobby would have been in they’re own personal wallets. At this high price from last September 4000$ to this 5000$ - 6000$ I doubt they don’t have either of it. That’s make this once more in demand and popularity of cryptocurrency will not stop but still widespread day by day.

[btcton]

This worth a read and how much bitcoin does Steve, Bill and Bobby would have been in they’re own personal wallets. At this high price from last September 4000$ to this 5000$ - 6000$ I doubt they don’t have either of it. That’s make this once more in demand and popularity of cryptocurrency will not stop but still widespread day by day.

Completely agreed. This is in fact also true of pretty much every investor out there or any person with a big sum of money. Diversifying wealth includes diversification to different assets and currencies. When you see famous people talking about Bitcoin, regardless of whether they support it or think it's stupid, odds are they are actually quite invested in Bitcoin. The chance is too good to pass up. Those who talk against Bitcoin know about the possibility of what they are saying being completely wrong and know that they need to have some Bitcoin for when it booms.