{"id":411108,"date":"2022-03-01T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/samson-mow-leaves-blockstream-plans-to-focus-on-nation-state-bitcoin-adoption\/"},"modified":"2022-03-01T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T19:00:00","slug":"samson-mow-leaves-blockstream-plans-to-focus-on-nation-state-bitcoin-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/samson-mow-leaves-blockstream-plans-to-focus-on-nation-state-bitcoin-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"# Samson Mow leaves Blockstream, plans to focus on \u2018nation-state Bitcoin adoption\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># Samson Mow leaves Blockstream, plans to focus on \u2018nation-state Bitcoin adoption\u2019 <\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjItMDMvNzlhYzEwZTQtMDYzZS00M2Q4LWJmZjAtMjU5YTk2ZTkzNTcyLmpwZw==.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\" data-v-128018ef>Blockstream chief strategy officer Samson Mow has announced he will be leaving the blockchain firm after five years.<\/p>\n<p>In a Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> thread, Mow <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Excellion\/status\/1498680531520827399\">said<\/a> he would continue to be a \u201c#BlockstreamSpy\u201d following his departure from the Canada-based firm where he had worked since April 2017. He said he would stay on as CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> development company Pixelmatic, a position in which more \u201cattention is being demanded,\u201d but planned to focus on \u201cnation-state Bitcoin adoption\u201d in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWith everything h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ening at light speed in El Salvador, and more and more countries interested in adopting #Bitcoin, I found my time each day just no longer enough anymore,\u201d said Mow. \u201cSo with @Blockstream in a very good place and well capitalized after a successful B round, it was the right time to move on. It also feels like now is a pivotal point in #Bitcoin\u2019s evolution \u2014 we\u2019re on the verge of mass adoption, and I think that I can make it happen faster.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today is my last day with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Blockstream?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Blockstream<\/a>. It&#8217;s been a grand adventure working with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adam3us?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@adam3us<\/a> for the last 5 years and together we&#8217;ve accomplished a great deal from sidechains, to mining, to satellites. So what\u2019s next? I plan to focus on nation-state <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a> adoption! <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Samson Mow (@Excellion) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Excellion\/status\/1498680531520827399?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nMow has been involved in plans to build a Bitcoin City in El Salvador. The project aims to use geothermal energy from the country\u2019s Conchagua volcano to power Bitcoin (BTC) mining in the innovative city, which will be built at the foot of the mountain. According to the Pixelmatic CEO, a $1 million BTC price could help make the Latin American nation \u201cthe financial center of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Related: <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Bitcoin Core developer Samuel Dobson decides it is \u2018time to go\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The now-former Blockstream chief strategy officer added he would continue to \u201csupport and advocate\u201d for Blockstream\u2019s sidechain-based settlement network, Liquid, as \u201cIt has an important role to play in the reformation of the legacy financial system.\u201d He previously worked as the chief operating officer of BTCC, the crypto exchange behind one of the largest mining pools in the world at the time, and as the director of production and executive producer at Ubisoft.<\/p>\n<p>An advocate of Bitcoin for many years, Mow also recently made the Cointelegraph Top 100\u00a0for his work at Pixelmatic, Blockstream, the El Salvador project and more. 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In a Tuesday Twitter thread, Mow said he would continue to be a \u201c#BlockstreamSpy\u201d following his departure from the Canada-based firm where he had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":411109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/1200_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjItMDMvNzlhYzEwZTQtMDYzZS00M2Q4LWJmZjAtMjU5YTk2ZTkzNTcyLmpwZw==.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81852,74863,115847,74355,117],"class_list":["post-411108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-blockstream","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-samson-mow","tag-adoption","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}