05-01-2019 01:00 via newsbtc.com

BitMEX CEO: Bitcoin Still An Experiment, But Has A Bright Future

Bitcoin (BTC) isn’t the world’s first stab at digital money. In fact, the idea of running society with digital cash has been around for three decades, if not more. David Chaum, an American cryptographer, founded DigiCash in 1990, but it failed not one decade later. E-gold, a computer-based representation of gold, and the Liberty Reserve, which converted U.S. dollars and Euros into digitized counterparts, failed, just like its predecessor in DigiCash.
But, when Satoshi Nakamoto releas
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