menu
search

Podcasts: Why Buy Bitcoin? With Andy Edstrom 🔗 3 years ago

What Bitcoin Did

“The longer we spend doing this, the more we learn about it, the deeper down the rabbit hole we fall, the more likely, or the clearer it seems that this is a major, major civilisational inflection point.”
— Andy Edstrom

Location: Remotely
Date: Tuesday 12th January
Company: Swan Bitcoin
Role:
Head of Institutional Investment

Why buy bitcoin is a complicated question to answer. Bitcoin is many different things to different people. It is a censorship-resistant form of payment for those living under authoritarian regimes; for some, it is a hedge against inflation, while it is purely speculative for many others.

Even with Bitcoin adoption growing and maturing, the public perception of Bitcoin is still mixed. The mainstream media is somewhat to blame. It regularly pedals false narratives such as the funding of terrorism or Bitcoin being for drug dealers and network security that is melting the polar icecaps. As Bitcoiners we are used to dealing with this kind of FUD, Bitcoin has been declared dead hundreds of times, yet it continually bounces back.

So, why buy Bitcoin?

In this interview, I talk to Andy Edstrom, author of Why Buy Bitcoin. We discuss his investment thesis for Bitcoin, why Bitcoin continues to thrive and address the common misconceptions and FUD surrounding it.

This episode’s sponsors:

Kraken - The best place to buy, sell & trade Bitcoin
BlockFi - The future of Bitcoin financial services
Sportsbet.io - Online sportsbook & casino that accepts Bitcoin
Casa - The leading provider of Bitcoin multisig key security.
Exodus- The world's leading Desktop, Mobile and Hardware crypto wallets.

-----

WBD302 - Show Notes

-----

If you enjoy The What Bitcoin Did Podcast you can help support the show by doing the following:

Become a Patronand get access to shows early or help contribute

Make a tip:
Bitcoin: 3FiC6w7eb3dkcaNHMAnj39ANTAkv8Ufi2S
QR Codes: Bitcoin
If you do send a tip then please email me so that I can say thank you

Subscribe on iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | SoundCloud | YouTube | Deezer| TuneIn | RSS Feed

Leave a review on iTunes

Share the show and episodes with your friends and family

Subscribe to the newsletter on my website

Follow me on Twitter Personal | Twitter Podcast | Instagram | Medium|YouTube

If you are interested in sponsoring the show, you can read more about that here or please feel free to drop me an email to discuss options.

More from this author

16th April 2024 12:29

12th April 2024 12:22

8th April 2024 04:27

3rd April 2024 01:07

1st April 2024 12:44

29th March 2024 12:14

27th March 2024 11:26

Feel free to send a tip using tippin.me

Or alternatively you can send a few sats directly:

btc logo BTC ln logo BTC (Lightning)

btc tip qr

33ELQ1ye29gB6YVQY6zRLFVCNYkJez9jMh

lightning tip qr

lnurl1dp68gurn8ghj7cm0d9hxxmmjdejhytnfduhkcmn4wfkz7urp0yhn2vryv5ukvdm995ckydph956rvv3h94sk2dny95mkgv34xdsnvvrpv4jxz6whyrn