Why do casino tycoons give so much money to BSV?
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Author | Lu Xiaoming
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Since the power battle last year, BCH forked into two currencies, BCH ABC and BSV. At that time, supporting the BSV in the power battle, was the actual controller of the blockchain company Coingeek, Calvin Ayre (CA). Billionaire Calvin Ayre used to be a casino tycoon in Australia. He founded the Bodog Group, which started out as a gaming industry and later expanded into the media and entertainment industry. He is also a media tycoon.
From the distribution of computing power and funding sources, Coingeek is like Bitcoin to BCH. According to public information, the BSV project was created and sponsored by CoinGeek Mining, based in Antigua, and its development work is carried out by nChain. . The project is owned by the Bitcoin Association, which is based in Antigua and represents the global BSV community.
In other words, until today, Calvin Ayre continues to support BSV.
Odaily Planet Daily and Calvin Ayre had an interview at the Coingeek Community Conference in Seoul, Korea (actually the BSV Community Conference). During the interview, he also told the Odaily Planet Daily that it is important to shorten the interview time because he does not want to miss every speech.
In this interview, he told the Odaily Planet Daily that he started investing in BTC very early, but he did not really understand the technical meaning until he met CSW (Craig S. Wright, also known as Sakamoto Satoshi). What is it. So he started the road to support CSW, and he kept investing money here. When I asked him why he invested so much money in it, he was like most “local tyrants”.Answer: “Because you always have to pay for some places.”
As a BSV diehard powder, he is not only digging BSV, but also digging BTC. Interestingly, unlike other BSVers I know, he actually said that “BTC and BSV can coexist.” (BSVer Inner OS: Is BTC not a counterfeit?) Let’s hear what he thinks.
The following is the essence of the interview compiled by Odaily Planet Daily:
Odaily Planet Daily: When did you start paying attention to bitcoin and blockchain?
Calvin Ayre: When it was first created, it started to focus on Bitcoin. Because Bitcoin was actually invented by people in the gaming industry, and I used to work in the gaming industry, so I voted for a few small projects. At the time, CSW (Craig S. Wright) who created Bitcoin worked for me at the time, but I didn’t know him. Many people know that Bitcoin is also because of Craig.
Later, in June or July 2015, I met Craig, and then he explained these principles to me, let me connect everything, and I finally understood what this technology means. Since then, I have been more actively involved in this technology.
Most people didn’t believe in Bitcoin early because it sounds unrealistically true, but I believe. So I worked hard to educate people in the industry.
Odaily Planet Daily: You are the largest source of funding for the BSV project, including the Bitcoin Association, the official association of the BSV, the main development team of the BSV, nChain, and the coingeek, which operates the BSV mining pool and the media. I believe many people want to know why Calvin is willing to invest so much money in the BSV-related ecology?
Calvin Ayre: Because you always have to invest money in certain places, you should invest in things that will become important in the future. What’s more, BSV is now very important, and you know it will become more important in the future.
Odaily Planet Daily: Do you expect them to be profitable for you in the future? Or how do you calculate or plan for this investment to make money for you?
Calvin Ayre: Yes, of course, some are private businesses. It must be profitable and always planned. Coingeek also made a profit from mining, but at this meeting, especially at this conference, I hope to focus on getting people to build their own business on the BSV. I hope that BSV can help people use micro-transactions to do business, spend money on micro-transactions and get bitcoin. This is what I want everyone to focus on right now.
Odaily Planet Daily: At the beginning, did you invest in BTC?
CalVin Ayre: Yes, I invested in BTC very early. Until today, I am still involved in BTC investment, I dig BTC. I dig BTC and BSV.
Odaily Planet Daily: But didn’t dig BCH?
Calvin Ayre: Emm, BCH does not exist for reasons. BSV can do better with all the things BCH can do. But BTC actually has a unique business model that exists as a value store, digital gold. BTC and BSV can coexist because they are completely different. BCH is like a “failed version” of BSV. Their products don’t work. They don’t even have a road map.
Odaily Planet Daily: What do you think are the BSV competitors?
Calvin Ayre: BSV has no competitors. Only BSVs are extensible, allowing commercial applications to be deployed on top of them, and no other chains.
Odaily Planet Daily: What do you think about the huge fluctuations in the price of BSV?
Calvin Ayre: We don’t look at the price at all, because it doesn’t have anything to do with building an application. We are also very happy if the token price does not move. However, in the long run, storage value comes from utility (application scenarios), so I certainly expect people to slowly see the utility value of this platform.
Token price should be up, but it doesn’t matter to us. The current price volatility is due to the lack of market awareness, and the uneducated market is mixed with a large number of market-controlled behaviors.
Odaily Planet Daily: Do you remember that there were some BSVs that were removed from the exchange before?
Calvin Ayre: This is illegal and unethical. This is censorship. They thought that this currency was removed, and people would not know how powerful the technology is, but it would not work. And we don’t need to go to the office, BSV is an application platform. This in turn gives our community more technical support.
Odaily Planet Daily: They are off BSV, it seems because they don’t like Craig?
Calvin Ayre: This is a lie. They are afraid that Craig is leading because of his technical accomplishments, but they can’t say that, so they say they don’t like him. But this is not true. They are just trying to stop his speech from spreading, just like censorship, but obviously they have not succeeded. But I want to stress again that this is a well-known lie. Everyone knows that Craig is Nakamoto.
Odaily Planet Daily: However, Craig is still a very controversial person in the cryptocurrency community.
Calvin Ayre: These disputes are false. They don’t want CRaig said that the technology of this platform platform is so good, so he said that he is not Nakamoto, and he said that he does not like him. In fact, the dispute does not exist at all.
Odaily Planet Daily: Have you ever worried that these things will affect the promotion and popularity of BSV?
Calvin Ayre: Not at all. If you attended this meeting today, you will find that the BSV community is large, not just one person. The two are completely irrelevant.