Blake Anderson Wants To Educate The Dreamers, Artists & Creative Types About Bitcoin – TDV Week In Review, May 24, 2015
Having recently moved from St. Paul, Minnesota to San Francisco, California, Blake Anderson is serious about bringing Bitcoin to the commanding heights of technology and finance.
His experience as a math based security project manager at a Fortune 50 bank opened his eyes to the truth about modern finance. It’s obsolete. He predicted the JP Morgan Chase hack and, as he told Crypto Coins News, “continue[s] to believe that it was much more severe than they are willing to admit. My experience in cryptography is that it keeps getting better but isn’t able to be implemented correctly in most legacy situations.”
He once thought Bitcoin was bad, he told CCN. He thought he could “copy [Bitcoin] over and over.” He later realized “the significance of the improvement in communication fault tolerance to a literally transcendent extent.”
He comes to Bitcoin from a unique perspective. He caters to the right brain when understanding and explaining Bitcoin, because “The right brain is known for creativity, most emotions, the long view and spatial awareness.”
He figures most people come from a left-brain perspective, considering how scientific and mathematical Bitcoin is, so he does his best to develop an understanding of Bitcoin from a philosophical and creative perspective.
“Sometimes people call dreamers, artists and creative types ‘right brain,'” Anderson tells CCN. “The left brain is good at sequence, mathematics, rational order and literal, formal thinking. Since many of the more expert scientists in the Bitcoin space generally explain Bitcoin from a left brain perspective, I try to ensure that the right brain gets covered, too.”
The Silk Road
Blake followed the Silk Road trial, remaining close to the human interest amid all the computerese. He hasn’t liked what he’s seen.
“The trial has been a heartbreaking bastardization of justice in virtually every way possible,” Blake told CCN. “From the extreme corruption of the agents creating crimes for which to try Ross, to the court’s inability to even fake a trial conducted in fairness with respect to the constitution.”
He is close to the Ulbricht family, and wanted to get involved in a very impactful way, but the threat was too grave.
“Ross’s mother asked me in person, from a parent to a parent, to help with the complex computer data information being thrust on the family at extreme short notice,” Blake said. “This data was supposed to be gone through to ‘construct a defense.’ It was really a virtually ‘take these and prove he didn’t do it,’ guilty until proven innocent situation.”
Ultimately, Blake couldn’t help.
“I agreed to do everything within my power to help but was unable to do so after my lawyer and business partners illustrated the risk to me personally at assisting the defense in a federal investigation.”
A 98% federal conviction rate also deterred him.
“A conviction rate like that means that things are being done outside the law on all sides to ensure that the system can handle all of the laws which have been created by the corpulent state.”
Today, Ross spends his days evaluating participants in the Bitcoin community and raising awareness in and outside the Bitcoin community.
“I’m working on cutting the scammers out of Bitcoin and calling out those who sell token substrates and fractional reserve systems as “Bitcoin.”’
Some in the Bitcoin community haven’t taken kindly to his efforts.
“I’ve been blocked on social media by famous venture capitalists and even their capital firms for pointing out the incontrovertible untenability of their business models.”
Justin O’Connell is the Head Researcher at Dollar Vigilante and Chief Executive Officer of GoldSilverBitcoin. Justin is also a co-host at Our Very Own Special Show, a lifestyle podcast about music, news, life and other topics. He lives in San Diego, California. Justin specializes in WordPress design, as well as online marketing.
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