There’s been a lot going on within the crypto-ecosystem and this week news.Bitcoin.com chatted with Josh Ellithorpe, Senior Software Engineer at Coinbase. Ellithorpe explains to our readers how he got into bitcoin and about when he eventually joined the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency firm about a year and a half ago. The software developer is also a Bitcoin Cash (BCH) supporter and we discuss some of the reasons to why he likes the BCH environment. Ellithorpe chatted further with us about some of the hot topics concerning the BCH protocol, a few weeks before the proposed upgrade scheduled for this November.
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News.Bitcoin.com (BC): Can you tell our readers how you got into cryptocurrencies?
Josh Ellithorpe, Senior Software Engineer at Coinbase
Josh Ellithorpe (JE): I actually got into cryptocurrencies really early. I remember looking at the original Bitcoin white paper back in 2009 and I was really intrigued by it and looked at the software. I didn’t really get into the ecosystem at that point as I was just intellectually curious. The idea that we could have some form of digital money that couldn’t be copied was very revolutionary to someone like me, who has been in the computer science space for a really long time. So I didn’t know if anything would happen with Bitcoin when I researched it for the first time and I wasn’t like; “This is going to be the next big thing” right away. Then I just got busy and started doing some other work and rotated back into the cryptocurrency space around 2012 and started looking at crypto more seriously.
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