Able to leap hard forks in a single bound, he's Bitcoin Crusader!
The Financial Times has a negative piece out today about bitcoin titled, "Bitcoin rises above $4,000 in record run for digital currency: Market structure experts warn of potential liquidity issues from competing versions."
The article mentions Max, aka 'Bitcoin crusader:'
They neglect to mention, however, that Max is also a 'market structure expert' who actually got the patent on the 'virtual specialist technology.' This omission is strange as the article mentions the difficulty in pricing a virtual asset . . . um, Max's patent is exactly for that invention.
Full disclosure, many years ago, Max and the journalist, Izabella Kaminska, on this FT piece did get into a bit of a Twitter flamewar which had spilled out from a pub debate they had in central London about bitcoin. This was back when it was under $100 and Izabella was, if I recall correctly, claiming bitcoin couldn't work and that there were too many bitcoin fundamentalists out there. I forget the exact nature of the argument but it's somewhere in the Twitter archives, I should think. She's been one of the earliest financial journalists, however, covering bitcoin since the very early days and I like her a lot. Well worth the read.
(Signed, Steeming Stacy)
ps - I found this article while looking for an image to go with this Steemit; it's Max predicting a $50 billion market cap on bitcoin back in 2013 when the market cap was just $8.5 billion: Max Keiser Predicts $50 Billion Bitcoin Market Cap in 2014
