Podcasts: Erik Townsend and Yan Pritzker - E27 🔗 4 years ago

Summary:

Introduction

Summary of Erik's book about digital currencies
Why Bitcoin is the likely winner
Bitcoin as a bearer asset
Silicon Valley coin
Why people will choose Bitcoin
Central Bankers knowledge and goals
Capital controls by governments
Geopolitical control of currency
Governments will force their citizens onto "The Orwell" currency.
Black market currencies
Bitcoin's proof of work and difficulty adjustment
Bitcoin's layers and distributed architecture
Building a decentralized financial system
Ethereum doesn't scale.
Why Erik doesn't talk about Bitcoin on his podcast.
Wrap up

Erik on Twitter

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