James Pierog
James Pierog is Co-Founder and CEO of Bitcoin Prediction Market, a Wolf-backed company. He graduated with a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Yale-NUS. He studied philosophy under Andrew Bailey, co-author of Resistance Money, and his undergraduate thesis was on applying infinite groups to post-quantum cryptographic protocols.
Session
11-16
14:10
20min
Prediction Markets to Incentivize Bitcoin Adoption
James Pierog
Hodl used to mean not day trading, now it means not spending. Bitcoin needs novel use cases to incentivize spending. Speculation, via prediction markets, can provide a new incentive for no-coiners to adopt and spend Bitcoin over Lightning, and can provide a positive benefit for everyone in the form of forecasting of the future.
Finney Stage
Finney Stage