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Ian Balina is an influential Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Investor, Advisor, and Evangelist. A former Analytics Evangelist at IBM, Ian is now investing in cryptocurrency token sales (ICOs).I thought the awesome thing about Ian is how he found a niche or something to focus on and he's just running with it which is something all entrepreneurs can learn from. For Ian it's the cryptocurrency for us it could be a multitude of different things. I also appreciated the fact that he's had so many side ventures and businesses which show his work ethic and he seems to see opportunities everywhere. So sit back and enjoy this CEO Chat with Ian Balina. Topics: – What is a cryptocurrency and what is blockchain? Why are they important? – The future of the industry – Building a personal social media brand – Advice on going viral on social media – How he has been influenced by Gary Vaynerchuk to create content – Advice for people looking to start a side hustle Website: https://www.coinbase.com/ Mentioned: Book: Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money Book: The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order Ian's Book: The Complete Freelancer Guide: Become your own boss, do what you love, and make money doing it Website: ianbalina.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ianbalina/ Twitter: twitter.com/diaryofamademan Instagram: instagram.com/diaryofamademan Youtube: youtube.com/diaryofamademan Snapchat: snapchat.com/add/diaryofamademan Episode Link: https://ceochat.co/episodes/chat-44-social-media-influencer-side-hustlers-become-global-blockchain-cryptocurrency/

Many of the artists and creators who mint nonfungible tokens (NFTs) are concerned about the environmental impact of the blockchain. But what if they could pair carbon removal with any given NFT to make it carbon-negative? Alexander Salnikov is Cofounder and Chief Strategy Officer at Rarible: a multichain, community-centric NFT marketplace. On this episode of Reversing Climate Change, Alexander joins Ross and cohost Alexsandra Guerra, Nori's Director of Corporate Development, to discuss the partnership between Nori and Rarible, describing how it affords Rarible users the opportunity to address their carbon footprint. Alexander explains how NFTs function as an effective way to store assets on the blockchain, exploring the many different use cases for NFTs, and how having access to a community is attracting new users to the space. Listen in for Alexander's insight around the future of NFTs and learn how blockchain technology might be used to make all our systems more transparent, faster, and more efficient. Connect with Nori Purchase Nori Carbon Removals Nori's website Nori on Twitter Check out our other podcast, Carbon Removal Newsroom Resources Rarible Rarible's Partnership with Nori Bored Ape Yacht Club CryptoKitties Aspen Ideas Climate Conference Ready Player One Retina Ghost: creator of the Nori Proof-of-Attendance NFTs from the Miami event Nori Token Pre-Launch Carnival Recap Jesse Smith on Reversing Climate Change S3EP12 Ross's Nori Logo Graveyard NFT Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money by Nathaniel Popper Doodles NFT.NYC Art Basel Imogen Heap on Reversing Climate Change S2EP72 Aragon Court --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/reversingclimatechange/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/reversingclimatechange/support

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

In this episode, Ed Lehner joins Cryptocurrencyteens to discuss education in crypto, his experience as an educator in CUNY, some of the exciting results of his studies — for example the findings of his research on how crypto can fund education and science research — and educational resources he recommends to teens interested in learning more about crypto. Edward Lehner is an associate professor in the City University of New York System. In addition to Ed's teaching responsibilities, he researches educational funding via cryptocurrency. His work proposes an innovative type of research fund using altcoins. Although not a total funding solution, Ed proposes that staking coins can be strategically invested in to yield compound interest. These coins use technologies to collateralise the network and speed the pace of transactions. Additionally, these staking coins pay dividends to masternode holders, so an institution that purchases these type of central hubs could potentially engage in a lucrative form of dividend reinvestment. Using cryptocurrencies as a new funding stream, it is possible that simply garnering large amounts of capital and creating a nonprofit “institute” could also be the future of funding scientific research. Ed's Research Agenda: Educational Endowments with Cryptocurrency More information on Edward Lehner's research agenda: http://ledger.pitt.edu/ojs/ledger/article/view/108 https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/paradise-found/268639 https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/a-call-for-second-generation-cryptocurrency-valuation-metrics/268631 Resources Mentioned by Ed in this episode: Debt: The First 5000 Years (Book by David Graeber) The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Book by Niall Ferguson) The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System, Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis, The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System (Books by James Rickards) Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money (Book by Nathaniel Popper) Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption (Book by Ben Mezrich) Bitcoin & Black America (Book by Isaiah Jackson) Coin Bureau (Youtube Channel) Laura Shin's Podcast: Unchained Andreas M. Antonopoulos Learn more: Ed Lehner (guest): https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-lehner-cryptocurrency Abigail Li (host): https://www.linkedin.com/in/cryptocurrencyteens About Cryptocurrencyteens: https://www.cryptocurrencyteens.com/

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.

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.

To make Nori work, the data of carbon removal must be somehow transferred from a model like COMET-Farm to the blockchain—and that is precisely the infrastructure that Jaycen Horton is building at Nori. So, how does communication between the software work, exactly? Why did Nori choose to build on the Ethereum blockchain? And what is the benefit of building in an open-source community? Jaycen is the Principal Blockchain Architect at Nori. He has extensive experience as Lead Software Engineer at Dell, Security Engineer at Wells Fargo, and at ASU Decision Theater. Jaycen’s career has focused on peer-to-peer and distributed technologies, most recently drilling down to smart contracts and cutting-edge UX technology. He is also the co-organizer of the largest blockchain meetup in the state of Arizona, Desert Blockchain, and a contributor to the ground-breaking book, Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and DApps.  Today, Jaycen joins Ross, Christophe, and Paul to share his background in blockchain technology and how he came to join the Nori team. He explains his initial skepticism around Bitcoin, the advantage of Ethereum’s smart contracts, and the reasons Nori chose to build on the Ethereum blockchain. Jaycen describes the API that Nori is building, offering insight around the way it connects to COMET-Farm and the value of sharing the API in an open-source community. Listen in to understand the function of Nori’s backend software and learn where to go for more information about blockchain technology!   Resources  Certified Bitcoin Professional Ross’ Article on Ethereum IPFS Protocol Labs MetaMask Carbon Harvest Carbon Removal Seattle Reversing Climate Change EP013 COMET-Farm Nori on GitHub Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and DAppsby Andreas Antonopoulos and Gavin Wood Jaycen in Hacker Noon Hacker Noon Andreas Antonopoulos Books by Andreas Antonopoulos Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Moneyby Nathaniel Popper That Book on Blockchain: A One-Hour Introby Jonathan B. Morley CryptoZombies Solidity Truffle Suite Desert Blockchain Meetup   Key Takeaways [0:51] Jaycen’s background in blockchain technology Access to video cards, GPUs at ASU in 2010 Play with Bitcoin ‘like science experiment’  [3:54] Jaycen’s skepticism around Bitcoin early on Protein folding similar but more useful Not obvious could be used to exchange value [6:14] How Ethereum changed the landscape Smart contracts allow to build business Financial agreements among multiple parties Money executes transaction (no third party) Value associated with programmability [11:13] Jaycen’s insight on poor blockchain use cases   High-speed or low-cost transactions Check state into blockchain vs. all computations [15:07] The fundamentals of blockchain technology Nodes = participants in system, download info to store on network Only two components among decentralization, security and speed [19:16] Why Nori chose the Ethereum blockchain Open-source community of talented developers Functional blockchain [20:45] Jaycen’s take on public vs. private blockchains Purpose of blockchain = work with people don’t trust Incentivizes behavior to cooperate [22:50] The integration of carbon removal and blockchain tech Jaycen sold on Ethereum blockchain in February 2017 Carbon Harvest project at Hackathon (IPFS, MetaMask) [28:34] The significance of developing an API Common language between Nori and COMET-Farm [33:27] The parallels between scientific method and open-source software Modify yourself as necessary Peer review to identify flaws  [38:34] The function of Nori’s backend technology Pull in and process COMET-Farm data Store in smart contract on blockchain  [41:28] Why Nori is sharing its API Allows for purchase/sale of digital assets Infrastructure makes other things possible [43:04] The open-source ethos Take advantage of genius outside organization Idea easy to duplicate = no longer novel  [46:51] Where to learn more about blockchain tech Books by Andreas Antonopoulos Build games, collectibles (i.e.: CryptoZombies)

A look at the semiconductor market cycle, and how recent results from NVIDIA, Texas Instruments, and AMD have spooked the tech market. We look at NVIDIA’s most recent conference call where they place all the blame on what they call a “crypto hangover.” We then look at two distinct predictions about this latest semi cycle, one from JAG capital, who got it completely wrong, and another from a Supply Chain magazine that got it completely right. We finish up with a teardown of a New York Times article by Nathaniel Popper titled “5 Reasons Cryptocurrency Prices Are Plunging Again” and what he got wrong. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate and review us on iTunes. Thanks. Topics: Market downturn What NVIDIA is How earnings call work Examples of good non-street analyse questions Crypto hangover Semiconductor market cycle How slowing down of Nvidia, Texas Instruments, or AMD can affect the rest of the space A teardown of a New York Times article by Nathaniel Popper Book: Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money by Nathaniel Popper - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01D8KFX9Q/ Links: Earnings call transcript - https://seekingalpha.com/article/4222728-nvidia-corp-nvda-ceo-jen-hsun-huang-q3-2018-results-earnings-call-transcript Where Are We in the Semiconductor Cycle? - JAG Capital Management - https://jagcapm.com/where-are-we-in-the-semiconductor-cycle/ For Semiconductor Sales Cycles, Winter is Coming - EPSNews - https://epsnews.com/2018/10/04/for-semiconductor-sales-cycle-winter-is-coming/ 5 Reasons Cryptocurrency Prices Are Plunging Again - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/technology/cryptocurrency-price-drop.html Estimated USD Transaction Value - Blockchain - https://www.blockchain.com/en/charts/estimated-transaction-volume-usd

What happens when you create a space where blockchain proponents can share deep conversation and connection, creating a pool of talented people interested in developing solutions to our most challenging political, financial, and ecological problems? Jon Connors is the Community Development Lead at San Francisco’s Starfish Mission, a pioneering hub for the blockchain community dedicated to changing the way we approach commerce, communication and governance. Starfish hosts industry events, provides a popular co-working space, and offers training for developers, investors and business leaders. Jon is also the founder of Blockchain for Ecology, a marketing vehicle built to promote the unique organizations working to solve ecological problems with blockchain technology. Today, Jon sits down with Ross, Christophe, and Paul to share the idea behind Starfish Mission and explain his interest in both blockchain technology and ecological projects. He discusses his vision for a regenerative economy that functions appropriately rather than dumping an expense (e.g. nuclear waste disposal) on the rest of us. Jon offers insight around the potential to regenerate and flip land, the restrictions on silvopasture in the US, and the need for inclusion in the blockchain/ecology movement. Listen in to understand Jon’s current work around providing unconditional crypto token grants through Good Work Network and learn how the token economy incentivizes socially beneficial behavior to reverse climate change.   Resources  Starfish Mission Jon’s  Article on Regenerative Returns Blockchain for Ecology Nori’s Crowdfunding Campaign East End Eden Farmland LP Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warmingedited by Paul Hawken ReGen18 Regen Network Blacksheep NuMundo Blockchain for Social Impact San Francisco Psychedelic Society Global Climate Action Summit Soil Not Oil Crypto for Humanity Rethinking Money: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity into Prosperityby Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Moneyby Nathaniel Popper   Key Takeaways [1:23] Jon’s interest in blockchain technology Study of financial statement analysis Desire to participate in ecological restoration Ability to disintermediate nation state (e.g.: Pentagon) [4:15] The idea behind Starfish Mission 84 events in 5 months on small budget Developer-focused community hub [6:34] Jon’s idea around flipping land Visited East End Eden on Cycle2Evolve bike trip Research on prices of farms in area Use regenerative ag to flip in 7-10 years Increase in value from $15K/acre to $30K/acre [10:21] Jon’s insight on silvopasture   FDA categorizes as ‘biohazard’ 9-month waiting period [14:02] The impetus behind Blockchain for Ecology Marketing vehicle to highlight unique projects Includes Regen Network, Nori, Blacksheepand NuMundo [17:11] Jon’s vision around ecology and the blockchain Build on top of existing blockchain Kickstart regenerative ag, food + fiber industry [18:10] The Starfish Mission approach to sharing knowledge Haven for deep conversation, connection Great ideas and talent to create solutions [20:52] How the token economy incentivizes behavior Channel greed into socially beneficial action Shift away from ‘conquest mentality’  [25:34] The necessity for diversity in the movement Opposition from indigenous rights groups Focus on those who don’t have resources [30:15] The potential around small-scale currency Value within individual neighborhood System only considers overarching solution

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

Roger Ver is one of the earliest Bitcoin investors and through his tireless evangelizing of the cryptocurrency became known as ‘Bitcoin Jesus’. Roger joined us to discuss Bitcoin’s incredible potential to foster liberty. We also discussed how the current stalemate about how to scale Bitcoin is threatening that potential. And, finally, the mining pool operated by his site Bitcoin.com that is supporting the Bitcoin Unlimited client. Topics covered in this episode: How Roger Ver became the first investor in Bitcoin startups What the Bitcoin community was like in 2011 The appeal of Bitcoin for voluntaryists Why the scalability stalemate is crippling Bitcoin Bitcoin.com’s new mining pool and support for Bitcoin Unlimited His vision for the future of Bitcoin Episode links: Bitcoin.com Roger Ver Uncut Video Bitcoin Unlimited BLOCKTRAIL | Bitcoin API and Block Explorer Hashrate Distribution Mining Pools & Clients BLOCKTRAIL | Bitcoin API and Block Explorer Roger Ver: TIme to End the Block-Size Blockade Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain and Sébastien Couture. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/163

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.