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Vijay Boyapati

Vijay Boyapati

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Vijay Boyapati is a Senior Software Engineer at Peach, a rapidly growing technology company and service provider. He is the author of one of the most widely known articles for Bitcoin beginners: The Bullish Case for Bitcoin. He is recognized for his prolific pieces on Bitcoin and why it's a vital store of value, making complex topics simple to understand. He joined the Bitcoin space in 2011 and went down the rabbit hole in a quest to understand how a new form of internet money, backed by no commodity and guaranteed by no government, could have any economic value. He also spent 5 years as a Software Engineer at Google. He left Google in 2007 to work on a grassroots campaign in the 2008 Presidential election, helping to raise millions of dollars and bring hundreds of volunteers to New Hampshire to canvass for Ron Paul.

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THE BULLISH CASE FOR BITCOIN

  • His publication, The Bullish Case for Bitcoin, is one of the most read articles on Bitcoin after Satoshi Nakamoto's Whitepaper.

  • Armed with a background in Austrian economics, Boyapati penned "The Bullish Case for Bitcoin" as a long-form article in 2017 to help them understand Bitcoin

  • It has been translated into 20 different languages and is often cited as the most useful resource to give to newcomers who are attempting to understand Bitcoin.

  • It represents an intellectual tour de force delivered with elegance and prescience by a polymath well-versed in mathematics, computer science, economics, philosophy, politics, and engineering.