Bitcoin.com Podcast: Simon Dixon Talks P2P Lending

In an interview with Bitcoin Archive’s Archie, early Bitcoiner and Bank to the Future co-founder Simon Dixon characterized the current moment as nothing less than “the Wall Street attack phase,” arguing that institutional finance is assembling the plumbing and incentives to pull customer coins into custodial wrappers—and, in crisis, separate investors from their bitcoin. “People […]

NewsBTC recently got a chance to speak with Simon Dixon, the founder of online investment platform BnkToTheFuture.com. Dixon opened up about his views on the future of financial innovation, and how their initiative can effectively arrange capitals to promote secure and fast global banking. Here is some of the excerpts from our conversation: Yashu: Tell us a little bit about BnkToTheFuture and what motivated its launch. Simon: BnkToTheFuture is an online investment platform where investors can invest in financial innovation and the future of technology. It was built because we believe the....

Peer-to-peer bitcoin lending platform CredibleFriends has successfully pitched on BnkToTheFuture, where it has already raised $51,000 or 20% of its funding goal. P2P Lending ‘Ready for Version 2’. CredibleFriends, which allows friends to lend each other money based on trust and aims to spread bitcoin use among lay consumers, is aiming to raise $250,000....

BnkToTheFuture co-founder Simon Dixon has proposed a recovery plan similar to the solution offered to Bitfinex after its Bitcoin hack in August 2016 – allowing customers to be compensated for their losses through tokens tied to the platform’s recovery. Celsius’ lead investor BnkToTheFuture and its co-founder Simon Dixon have offered to assist the network by deploying similar “financial innovation” used in 2016 to save cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex from liquidation.I believe traditional finance will not have a timely solution for Celsius as we saw in the past with Mt. Gox that still....

Korean national television and popular news network recently featured Bitcoin entrepreneurs Simon Dixon and Roger Ver to demonstrate how bitcoin is used often to settle peer to peer transactions in Korea. Since 2014, an increasing number of venture-backed bitcoin startups including Coinplug and Korbit have emerged, enabling Korean bitcoin users and traders to purchase and sell bitcoin with ease. Korean bitcoin startups, specifically Coinplug have sponsored bitcoin meetups, conferences and events to increase mainstream bitcoin awareness in Korea. Due to these efforts, the number Korean....