{"id":31830,"date":"2020-11-16T15:42:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T13:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=31830"},"modified":"2025-08-28T05:39:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:39:44","slug":"co-founder-of-an-american-tech-company-urges-everyone-to-believe-in-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/co-founder-of-an-american-tech-company-urges-everyone-to-believe-in-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-founder of an American tech company urges everyone to believe in Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eoghan McCabe, co-founder and chairman of Intercom, the platform operator for customer messaging, said he has finally come to believe in Bitcoin and urged everyone to follow his example.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I would like to announce that after years of dabbling I\u2019ve jumped firmly onto the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a> wagon and would now like everyone else to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eoghan McCabe (@eoghan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eoghan\/status\/1328177556218998784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I announce that after many years of dabbling I have firmly jumped onto the Bitcoin wagon and now would like everyone else to do the same,&#8221; McCabe wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He noted that he first invested in Bitcoin around $100 in 2013.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;But I was simply speculating without conviction,&#8221; added McCabe.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now he advised all holders of the leading cryptocurrency to &#8220;hodl&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He did not state the reason for his newfound faith in Bitcoin, but noted that he found &#8220;interesting and fun&#8221; Anthony Pompliano&#8217;s podcast with Parallax Digital founder Robert Breedlove to be &#8220;interesting and fun&#8221;. Both are well-known supporters of Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>Intercom developed a platform for messaging between businesses and current and prospective customers through its app, website, as well as via social networks and email.<\/p>\n<p>McCabe was offered to add the ability to pay for the company&#8217;s services with Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, the laws of physics for large companies state that between the moment when a founder thinks something is a good idea and when his firm acts accordingly, years pass,&#8221; he replied.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He also believes that Bitcoin is not yet suitable for this.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal to convert a portion of Intercom&#8217;s assets into cryptocurrency, as MicroStrategy did after CEO Michael Saylor&#8217;s personal investment in Bitcoin, McCabe ignored.<\/p>\n<p>MicroStrategy <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/microstrategy-bets-another-175-million-on-bitcoin\">invested<\/a> in the first cryptocurrency $425 million, buying a total of 38,250 BTC. Saylor&#8217;s personal Bitcoin holdings <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/microstrategy-chief-reveals-how-many-bitcoins-he-owns\">stand at<\/a> 17,732 BTC.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-founder and chairman of Intercom, the platform operator for customer messaging, Eoghan McCabe, said he has finally come to believe in Bitcoin and urged others to follow his example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1138,26],"class_list":["post-31830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-opinions","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"7","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31832,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31830\/revisions\/31832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}