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Heads up: This episode opens with a conversation about egg freezing and fertility - if you'd prefer to skip that part, jump ahead to 5:09.Tesla just posted its worst financial results in years - so why did the share price go up? In this week's episode, Vic and Sophie dive into the unexpected investor reaction and what Elon's renewed focus on the company might really mean. Plus, we cover Bitcoin's surprising comeback, why Revolut is shaking up traditional banking, what's really going on and how climate change is driving up chocolate prices. It's a week of curveballs in both markets and life - exactly the kind of conversation that makes you think twice about where the world (and your money) is heading.Sign up to our free workshop: What We're Investing In and Why. WTF Does That Mean? A Guide to All the Jargony BitsFinancial Results – A company's money report card.Share Price – The cost to buy one share.Global Growth – How fast the world's economy is growing.Tariffs – Extra taxes on imported stuff.Bitcoin – Internet money, owned by no one.Digital Gold – Bitcoin acting like gold during chaos.Decentralised – No one boss, everyone shares control.ETF – A bundle of investments in one.Neo-Bank – A bank that's online-only (and cooler).Revenue – All the money a company makes.Margin – Profit after paying costs.Volatility – Wild ups and downs in prices.⁠⁠Leave us a message on The Curve Hotline

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President Joe Biden issued a long-awaited cryptocurrency executive order Wednesday, directing federal agencies to study a wide range of issues including protecting consumers and businesses, safeguarding national security, and preventing criminal activity. The order also includes a directive to study the possibility of creating a U.S. digital dollar, an idea that other countries like China, which already has government-backed tokens, have embraced. Biden's order comes as countries around the world have been rushing to catch up on regulating the cryptocurrency market. We'll talk about the prevalence of crypto, its growing acceptance as a currency and how it should be regulated. Guests: Laura Shin, host, "Unchained" podcast. Shin is the author of "The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies and the Making of the First Cryptocurrency Craze" Nathaniel Popper, author of "Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money" Charlie Warzel, contributing writer, The Atlantic. Warzel is the author of "Galaxy Brain," a newsletter about the internet and big ideas

Web3! It's the latest internet buzzword which encompasses an egalitarian vision of the web that's more reliable, based on trust, and, inevitably, built on the blockchain. This plan for the future is being pushed by startups, venture capitalists, and Silicon Valley bigwigs, all of whom stand to make some sweet, sweet cryptocurrency from a new breed of web app that takes the power from the platforms and puts it back in the hands of the people. This week on Gadget Lab, WIRED senior writer Gilad Edelman joins us to talk about whether the reality of whatever Web3 becomes will ever live up to Silicon Valley's rosy vision of it. Show Notes Read Gilad's story about Web3. Recommendations  Gilad recommends the book Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money by Nathaniel Popper, and also Boone Ashworth's story about Fire Twitter on WIRED.com. Mike also recommends the Fire Twitter story. Lauren recommends the show Broad City. Gilad Edelman can be found on Twitter @GiladEdelman. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab. The show is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our theme music is by Solar Keys. If you have feedback about the show, or just want to enter to win a $50 gift card, take our brief listener survey here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Once again, the cryptocurrency Bitcoin is making headlines for rocketing in value. As more companies back it, could it be here to stay? And if so, how is it changing our world? Katty Kay and Carlos Watson look at Bitcoin’s latest price surge and discuss how it and other digital currencies are being adopted around the globe - from the U.S., to Venezuela, to China. Nathaniel Popper is a New York Times technology reporter and author of Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money. He’s been following the Bitcoin story for nearly a decade, and explains how it is changing our relationship with money. Lily Liu is an entrepreneur who has worked with cryptocurrencies for more than five years. In 2018 a company she co-founded was sold to one of the largest cryptocurrency trading platforms for more than $100m. She says companies are backing Bitcoin as an alternative to gold. A co-production from the BBC World Service and OZY Media.

Another FREE Kale Letter today! Eventually I swear I’m going to cut this off and only send 1 a week to non-paying subscribers, so make sure you subscribe so you don’t get cut off!For those of you that don’t know me, I’m probably the most BLUNT human on the planet. If I was a tool, I’d be a sledgehammer. I don’t like to mess around with all the “political correctness” and all that crap.So, you can probably read much more DETAILED and NUANCED and TECHNOLOGICAL arguments for Bitcoin in other places, just follow who I follow on TWITTER -> https://twitter.com/kale_abeHowever, this argument will be DUMB SIMPLE. And articulate clearly the reasons I PERSONALLY put my money where my mouth is, and invest. Reason #1: SUPPLYThere are only 21 million bitcoin.And there can only ever be 21 million bitcoin. And a bunch of these have been LOST FOREVER, so there’s actually much less. Contrast this with basically anything else on the planet. The US Dollar (the government prints more out of thin air all the time) Oil (this year when people stopped driving, the oil companies were trying to PAY PEOPLE to TAKE the oil because they had so much. They can produce as much as they want based on the price)Silver (silver production goes UP when the price goes up and DOWN when the price goes down)It goes on and on. Things that are SCARCE have value. Think “Picasso” “Mona Lisa” “Malibu Real Estate” “Super Rare Baseball Cards” “Buggatti Veyron” and you will get the idea.Bitcoin is the scarcest asset ever created because it is programmed into the CODE to be SCARCE. But none of that matters if there isn’t…….Reason #2: DEMANDThe Kale Letter is scarce. I’m the only one who wrights it. There’s literally only one. So if scarce things are valuable, it should be worth BILLIONS right?WRONG.It’s only valuable if people WANT IT. And oh my goodness do people want Bitcoin….I could write about the whole cycle of people that have bought bitcoin over the years but you don’t care.Let’s just say this. Bitcoin has gone from Super Nerds -> Nerds -> Early Adopters -> Mass adoption -> Unstoppable force adopted by the biggest companies in the World. In 9 years….Literally YESTERDAY. Yes, yesterday. The CEO of Square ($80 Billion dollar company) AND Twitter (same guy) just announced that Square is investing its money in Bitcoin. A few weeks ago, another publicly traded company, Micro-strategy, invested $425 MILLION dollars into Bitcoin.Here’s the crazy thing guys. THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING. Every company will eventually do this for 3 reasons. 1) There is nowhere else to invest cash. (Bonds Yield LESS than ZERO right now)2) Game theory. (Quick explanation, once a couple companies do it, the others are MASSIVELY incentivized to follow in order to stay competitive)3) There is almost unlimited cash sitting around ($4 TRILLION in US COMPANIES ALONE). The CEO’s literally have nowhere to put the cash. So might as well put it in the best performing asset to ever exist. Reason #3: DIGITAL GOLD Bitcoin is better at being Gold than Gold is.Bitcoin is more scarce.It’s MUCH MUCH MUCH harder to steal and hack. (it’s the most secure computer network in the world)It’s MUCH easier to transport (instantly across borders). PLUS you can verify that it’s real and that people have it INSTANTLY (try doing that with Gold).WE ALL KNOW THE WORLD ECONOMY IS A MESS RIGHT NOW.I mean look around. The stock market is UP but every business we can see with our eyes (other than online ones) are STRUGGLING with continued lockdowns. Something is wrong. In crazy times, EVERYONE HAS ALWAYS run to GOLD. It’s a HEDGE against the craziness and GREED that ALWAYS plagues society. But now, this THING (Bitcoin) has come along that is better at being gold, than GOLD is. Gold has a 10 Trillion Dollar Market Cap right now. Bitcoin is only 200 Billion. What happens when Bitcoin catches up?You can do the math. (Hint: the price goes up an insane amount). Those are the big 3 above, I’ll go quicker for the rest because I know you’re getting bored. Reason #4: More secure than a bank vault under the ocean. You might just have to take my word for it on this one, because it gets kind of complicated. But it’s safe to say that Bitcoin is secured by the most powerful computer network on the planet. Reason #4: DecentralizedNo one owns bitcoin. It can run on any computer worldwide. Thus, no one can shut it down, or otherwise control it. Seriously, something like this has never existed before. Reason #5: NETWORK EFFECTSMichael Saylor (that badass dude who invested 450M of his company’s money in Bitcoin) said this that has stuck with me. Not an exact quote but -> “Any time a network effect biz (think facebook, google, amazon, etc) has reached a market cap of 200B (like bitcoin has) it has become LITERALLY unstoppable.”THIS IS SO TRUE. Imagine just for a second, how hard it would be to create a better facebook and beat them at their own game…It’s impossible.Why? BECAUSE THEY HAVE 4 BILLION USERS. Their product is YOU. and getting 4 BILLION people to change their habits is basically impossible. What Michael and I are saying is that once you have a network effect that is strong enough, like Bitcoin does, then it’s GAME OVER. Good luck catching up. Reason #6: Stock to FlowThis is WAY too nerdy for an article like this but just google “Plan B Bitcoin” if you want to go down the rabbit hole. Basically there is a statistical (and HIGHLY vetted) argument that Bitcoin will 10x (at least) in price over the next 12 months. Reason #7: The objections suck “The government will shut it down”They can’t. They literally can’t. Have our governments ever all worked together before? No. They would ALL have to ban it simultaneously or else it will live on and grow stronger and incentive the non banned countries to buy more…What happened when they tried to ban alcohol? (the price went up & so did demand)What happened when they tried to ban gold? (the price went up and so did demand)“You can just make your own coin”Please see reason #5. I can make my own facebook as well. Doesn’t mean I’ll be worth Billions. “Ethereum is better”The market has spoken my friend, no it’s not. Plus, it isn’t scarce and has a weird founder who kind of looks like Voldemort. I’ll pass.“It’s based on thin air, it has no intrinsic value”Neither does the dollar bill in your pocket. What makes something valuable is if people BELIEVE it’s valuable and has good “money characteristics”. Bitcoin has the best money characteristics of all time and people already believe its valuable and are investing like crazy. “It’s used for drug deals”Actually, one of my best friends is in the DEA. You know what’s used for drug deals? $100 Bills. Every type of money will be used for bad things, you can’t stop that and it won’t affect it going up. That stigma is dead now that companies like square have invested. Comment another objection below I’d love to destroy it.Reason #8: Money Printer Go BRRI’ve already talked about this one extensively so no need to harp. But governments are going to devalue your currency. They have no choice. I could talk about this for hours but I’d encourage you to read “The Price of Tomorrow” by Jeff Booth, if you don’t believe me. Guess what they can’t devalue by printing more of it? Bitcoin.Just think of every time you hear the word “stimulus” as a que to buy more bitcoin. That’s what I do. Reason #9: The Future is Here, and it’s Online.Anyone who tells you that future currencies won’t be digital is kind of like the people in the 90’s who said people would never shop online. They are just simply wrong. Most money is already 1s and 0s in your bank account. Just data. And that’s obviously where it’s all headed. Bitcoin is the scarcest and the most secure version of that new “future money” and it has a 9 year head start. Not difficult to see who will win here. Reason #10: There is risk, but it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity. I texted this to my dad last night. I really tried to think though the probabilities, or at least how I see it, for investing in the 2020s…So there you have it. Nothing is guaranteed. But that’s just a FEW of the reasons I invest in Bitcoin (literally just off the top of my head). Any of those “reasons” I put above, could be a 200 page BOOK with how IN DEPTH you can go to verify what I am saying. OHMIGOSH SEE I FORGOT THE MOST IMPORTANT ONEREASON #10: The HALVINGSEvery 4 years. The new supply of Bitcoin gets CUT IN HALF. Before May of this year, there were 1800 Bitcoin created every day.“But Kale I thought you said the supply was fixed?”It is, at 21 million.New Bitcoin will be mined (slower and slower) until we reach that 21 Million cap. So in May, we had a halving, and now there are only 900 new coins created per day…In May of 2024, there will only be 450…May 2028, 225…And so on. Pretty soon there will literally be ZERO new bitcoin. So I guess I’ll just leave you with the one question that made ME research bitcoin and eventually invest…If I told you, right now, that FOR SURE, half the gold mines were going to shut down on a set date. Would you buy Gold?(of course you would)Have a great day. Share this if it helped you. Subscribe so you don’t miss my next letters. Go read the other letters so you can see the quality of this letter.Love ya. Kale Get on the email list at thekaleletter.substack.com

This book describes how the encrypted virtual currency Bitcoin was created. It also gives a step by step explanation of how virtual currencies became more popular, driven by people with different motivations. In this process, the original financial and power centers were challenged. Many people became wealthy, while others engaged in criminal behavior. This book provides an excellent context for understanding financial technology and the digital economy and has been recommended by both the New York Times and The Financial Times.

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Coinbase says bitcoin as digital gold is better than gold as a store of value. Bitcoin defi is coming. Lifi will change technology. Bitcoin above 10k this weekend. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/apw-talk/support

In this interview with Richard de Sousa, CEO of AltCoinTrader, James asks about their recent launch of Gold and Silver on their platform, and what the response has been like. He also delves into the future of society thanks to the blockchain technology, and even touches on Bitcoin maximalism. You can watch to the video version of the interview here: https://youtu.be/RQ-Lrc9hqHg Full list of questions covered in this interview: - Were you the founder of Netspace? What services did Netspace offer? - What did you do with Netspace after you got ACT up and running? GOLD AND SILVER - How has the response been to digital gold and silver? - Could you elaborate on how you peg the price to the value of the real precious metals? (If the digital versions of the Kruger coins were much cheaper, people would buy and then cash out via your withdrawal by courier system. If much more expensive people wouldn’t invest or trade - so surely you have some form of algorithm stabilizing the price?) - Have you had anyone withdraw their Kruger coins yet? - Who are the retail partners? A single chain, or a number of chains linked in a partnership? - Will you ever introduce deposits via the retail partner? This could provide arbitrage opportunities for speculators. CRYPTOCURRENCIES - As a South African exchange, can you tell us how much data and information the SARB and FSC ask from you? - You’re the only exchange in Africa to offer the BTT airdrop. How have you found Tron’s honouring of this airdrop, and what are your thoughts on their move with BitTorrent? - How does ACT choose new coins to list? Is there a listing fee if projects approach you? - You offer Bitcoin SV, on your exchange. What are your thoughts on the Bitcoin forks controversy? Do you think there is even room for BSV? - You’re a headline speaker at Cryptofest, one of the first events of its kind in Africa. How would you rate the current cryptocurrency investment climate in South Africa? - How do you see cryptocurrencies impacting/affecting the geo-political future of our societies, if at all? - - - - - - - - - - - Be sure to subscribe to Africa's leading blockchain industry newsletter by entering your email address: https://mailchi.mp/5e039cf5af22/sacrypto Stay in touch with us at: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/SACrypto_ - SA Crypto's Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/SACryptoCommunity - We're on Instagram!: https://www.instagram.com/sacryptoza Subscribe to our Podcast on... - Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sa-crypto/id1422076015?mt=2 - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5XYDfVm2aKrdFKV52Cn4ee - Google: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy81ODg2Y2IwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz - - - - - - - Please support responsible journalism in the African blockchain industry by donating Bitcoin or Ether here: BTC address: 3Edw9rR9NLenSnCStB9jYoWHb6V9UrEDgS ETH address: 0x3867BdF1e78E96a7f5bfB8585a98a2dF66919Af5

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Olga Feldmeier speaks about being called the "Bitcoin Queen" of Switzerland, making the jump from banking to cryptocurrencies, setting up cold storage in Switzerland, spearheading crypto regulation in Switzerland, what attracts her to Bitcoin, the beginnings of Crypto Valley in Zug, the difficulty of explaining cryptocurrencies to financial regulators, why the traditional financial sector should embrace cryptocurrencies, ICO regulation, tokenizing off-chain assets, creating a token market with her new company Smart Valor, skills and challenges for startup entrepreneurs, dealing with criticism, and why it's important to "just do it". Olga is the CEO of Smart Valor, a Swiss-based blockchain company building a decentralized marketplace for tokenized alternative investments. Olga has worked for leading financial institutions such as Barclays Capital, UBS Wealth Management and Boston Consulting Group, and she has been Commercial Managing Partner at Xapo, one of the largest Bitcoin custodians. Olga is the producer of a series of blockchain conferences in Switzerland, she's a mentor at Kickstart Accelerator, and she often delivers talks about blockchain regulation, the tokenization of assets and the disruption of the banking industry. Olga Feldmeier: http://www.linkedin.com/in/olga-feldmeier, http://www.twitter.com/olgafeldmeier Smart Valor: http://smartvalor.com, http://www.twitter.com/smartvalorinc Xapo: http://www.xapo.com/ Also mentioned in the episode: Nathaniel Popper's book "Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money", http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23546676-digital-gold Many thanks to our sponsor! This episode has support from Shift Cryptosecurity, the maker of BitBox, a minimalist hardware wallet for cryptocurrencies. BitBox is rock-solid, compact, portable, easy to use, and designed and manufactured in Switzerland. To learn more and get your wallet today, visit http://www.shiftcrypto.ch.

Ada Jonušė, a former politician, is the CEO and co-founder of Lympo. Lympo is creating a healthy lifestyle ecosystem beginning with the Lympo app, which motivates people to exercise. The app launches in September and will be tested soon in Lithuania by approximately 15,000 marathon runners. Testing in South Korea and the USA is expected as well. Ada discusses Lympo’s recently announced partnership with the Dallas Mavericks of the NBA and the excitement and results that Lympo has already created before the launch of the app. She tells us about her involvement with W@Tech and her experience of being a female founder in the blockchain industry, including some struggles she’s faced.   Topics covered: - Ada’s background and how she first discovered crypto. - The problems that Lympo solves. - Upcoming events that Lympo will be working with. - Dallas Mavericks partnership. - How to get involved with Lympo pre-launch. - The W@Tech platform. - What it’s like to be a female involved with blockchain.   Links: https://lympo.io/ https://www.mavs.com/dallas-mavericks-lympo-app-announce-multi-year-partnership-promote-health-fitness-tech/ https://www.womenat.com/w-tech-events https://www.linkedin.com/in/ada-jonuse-9766364b Digital Gold/ Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money http://unchainedpodcast.co/ https://cryptonews.com/

On the official podcast of Bitcoin crashes, Aaron & Jay: listen in on CFTC Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo's hero-making comments to the Senate try to understand why exchanges like Binance are so opaque during downtime (even if they didn't actually get hacked) consider the first prediction market on the Augur (REP) platform which is a bet on "whether Augur will get hacked" 13:20 Forbes' First List Of Cryptocurrency's Richest: Meet The Secretive Freaks, Geeks And Visionaries Minting Billions From Bitcoin Mania (Forbes) 14:33 @CZ_Binance 16:01 Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money (Nathan Popper, Harper 2016) 19:16 Augur (REP) 19:30 Augur Ahead? One of the Oldest ICOs Is Almost Live (Coindesk) 26:37 Giancarlo defines "HODL" for the Senate 33:51 Giancarlo discusses whether Bitcoin is a commodity

In the past year, the cryptocurrency Bitcoin has jumped in value by nearly two thousand percent — and then, in the last days of 2017, saw a double digit percentage drop. Other digital currencies are seeing similar value jumps, like Ripple, which rose in price by 25 percent this week and is now the second-most traded cryptocurrency. But how do these volatile digital currencies work, who uses them? Are they investments or a way to pay for goods and services? And if you don't own any Bitcoins, how much should you care? This week on Money Talking, Charlie Herman talks about the recent cryptocurrency craze with Nathaniel Popper, finance and technology reporter for The New York Times and author of "Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money.”

Love Unchained? Please take this extremely brief survey to help us obtain more sponsors: https://survey.libsyn.com/unchained Days after the SegWit2x fork was called off, Nathaniel Popper, New York Times tech reporter and author of the book Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money, put this latest suspenseful chapter in Bitcoin's history into context. He discusses why he thinks Bitcoin has become such a vicious, polarized community, why so many of the early Bitcoiners ended up becoming supporters of big blocks, and what could happen to Bitcoin now that new money is entering the system but transactions are expensive and often backlogged. We also dive into who Satoshi Nakamoto might be, whether there are any viable Bitcoin businesses other than ones buying and selling Bitcoin and where regulation of the space is likely to go. Show notes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2017/11/14/what-bitcoins-history-says-about-its-future/ Digital Gold: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062362490/digital-gold Nathaniel's story on ICOs: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/technology/how-floyd-mayweather-helped-two-young-guys-from-miami-get-rich.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fnathaniel-popper His story on who Satoshi Nakamoto may be: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/business/decoding-the-enigma-of-satoshi-nakamoto-and-the-birth-of-bitcoin.html?_r=0

Love Unchained? Please take this extremely brief survey to help us obtain more sponsors: https://survey.libsyn.com/unchained Days after the SegWit2x fork was called off, Nathaniel Popper, New York Times tech reporter and author of the book Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money, put this latest suspenseful chapter in Bitcoin's history into context. He discusses why he thinks Bitcoin has become such a vicious, polarized community, why so many of the early Bitcoiners ended up becoming supporters of big blocks, and what could happen to Bitcoin now that new money is entering the system but transactions are expensive and often backlogged. We also dive into who Satoshi Nakamoto might be, whether there are any viable Bitcoin businesses other than ones buying and selling Bitcoin and where regulation of the space is likely to go. Show notes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2017/11/14/what-bitcoins-history-says-about-its-future/ Digital Gold: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062362490/digital-gold Nathaniel's story on ICOs: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/technology/how-floyd-mayweather-helped-two-young-guys-from-miami-get-rich.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fnathaniel-popper His story on who Satoshi Nakamoto may be: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/business/decoding-the-enigma-of-satoshi-nakamoto-and-the-birth-of-bitcoin.html?_r=0

The cyber currency created in 2009 as “a plaything for hackers,” will be used by governments by 2023 and consumers by 2027 by some estimates, Nathaniel Popper, author of Digital Gold: Bitcoin and theInside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money, tells a Baruch audience. The digital dough wasn’t worth anything until 2011, adds Popper, when it was adopted by users of the now defunct Silk Road website — to buy and sell heroin and marijuana without the transactions being trackable. Bitcoins, which exist as entries on a digital ledger, had an exchange rate value of more than $500 in September 2016. “Most of the general public still thinks of this as some sort of weird Tamogatchi pet or Pet Rock or something, but this is something that basically every Wall Street bank has a team working on right now,” Popper says.

Host Dave Robertson focuses this show on money and its future. His first guest is Kabir Sehgal, author of "Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us." Next, he talks with one of the great disruptors in the financial space, Arkadi Kuhlmann, Founder and CEO of ZenBanx, Inc. who shares his secrets to how technology can be effectively intertwined into the financial sector. After that, Dave speaks with Mick Simonelli, Former Lead Innovation Exectutive for USAA, who talks about what it takes to develop an effective innovation strategy in an established business. The final guest is Nathaniel Popper, author of "Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money," who talks about the complexities surrounding Bitcoin and what it takes to reinvent our currency.

From the mysterious creation story, to the early development among a small group of cypherpunks, to the emergence of the Silk Road, the collapse of MtGox, to the entry of a tidal wave of VC money and the Silicon Valley elite, Bitcoin’s short history has been action-packed. It’s no surprise that this could make for a riveting story and NY Times journalist Nathaniel Popper’s book ‘Digital Gold – Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money’ is precisely that. Popper joined us for a conversation about his must-read book about the remarkable story of Bitcoin. Topics covered in this episode: How Nathaniel Popper ended up writing a book about Bitcoin Why he chose ‘Digital Gold’ as a title and some of its different connotations Why he chose to focus on the people and stories of Bitcoin rather than the technology The story of the Silk Road and how it played such a critical role in the early days of Bitcoin How Xapo CEO Wences Casares came to play a crucial role in evangelizing Bitcoin among Silicon Valley’s power players The rising tension and passing of influence between the old, ideological guard and the newer Silicon Valley crew Episode links: Get 'Digital Gold' on Amazon Nathaniel Popper's website Can Bitcoin Conquer Argentina article Decoding the Enigma of Satoshi Nakamoto This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain and Sébastien Couture. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/081

Ever since Bitcoin was created in 2008 it has gotten a lot of buzz. Wall Street, whole governments and even presidential candidates have expressed interest in the viability of the digital currency. But it hasn't exactly changed the world yet. Could it? New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper has a new book out, Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money. He joins us to dig into the secretive history of Bitcoin.