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Franco Daniel Amati

Based in Buenos Aires, Franco Amati is an IT consultant who specializes in digital currencies, blockchain solutions, and cryptography as means for greater decentralization, individual freedom, and privacy. He's the co-founder of Bitcoin Argentina and Espacio Bitcoin. Follow @franamati.

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Bitcoin’s Growing Pains

Franco Daniel Amati May 14, 2015 3

EspañolThe bitcoin network processes approximately 100,000 transactions every day, or on average around one transaction per second. It seems like nothing by comparison with popular payment methods. PayPal says it handles 11 million daily…
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Columnists

Bitcoin 2.0: The Peer-to-Peer Economy Has Arrived

Franco Daniel Amati Apr 29, 2015 1

EspañolThink of a website like eBay, where users can offer goods and services, but instead all the information about sellers and products is managed through a decentralized peer-to-peer network (P2P). No one really "owns" the platform;…
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The Future of Bitcoin: Money or Technology?

Franco Daniel Amati Apr 15, 2015 18

EspañolLately, financial analysts have taken to repeating the same phrase when it comes to bitcoin: "The technology is interesting, but not so much the currency or its utility as a store of value." To understand what they mean, let's…
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Argentina

The Rise of Bitcoin in Argentina

Franco Daniel Amati Apr 2, 2015 16

EspañolDue to Argentina's recurring inflation crisis, capital controls, and overall financial repression, it's become a staple opinion in bitcoin circles to predict that the country is set for a crypto-currency boom. Actually,…
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Digital Currency

Why Bitcoin Is Better Off without a “Gold Standard”

Franco Daniel Amati Mar 16, 2015 3

EspañolPaper money once used to be backed up by a physical good. It was convertible for a fixed quantity of a good, usually precious metals like gold or silver, through a bank, currency exchange, or a similar institution. For example,…
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