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What Bitcoin Did with Peter McCormack

Aug 30, 2019

Location: Palo Alto
Date: Wednesday, 24th August
Project: Abra
Role: CEO & Founder

Facebook announced in June that they would be launching Libra, with the mission of enabling a "simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people".

Libra proposes a permissioned blockchain, meaning...


Aug 27, 2019

Location: Skype
Date: Monday, 26th August
Project: Casa
Role: Product Manager

Full nodes are fundamental to the security of the Bitcoin network by maintaining decentralisation and validating transactions and blocks by enforcing consensus rules.

While running a full node is an act of supporting the Bitcoin network, it...


Aug 23, 2019

Location: Skype
Date: Thursday, 22nd August
Project: The Stephan Livera Podcast
Role: Host

The principles of Austrian Economics and Libertarianism have grown in awareness with the rise of Bitcoin. Where Austrian Economists have adopted Bitcoin as the hardest form of money, conversely, Bitcoiners have become aware of...


Aug 20, 2019

Location: Skype
Date: Tuesday, 20th July
Project: Real Vision Group
Role: Co-Founder & CEO

"Chancellor on the brink of second bailout for banks" the Times headline on 3rd Jan 2009 and the now infamous words included in the Bitcoin Genesis Block. This was Satoshi Nakamoto's message to the world as the Bitcoin protocol...


Aug 16, 2019

Location: Skype
Date: Monday, 29th July
Project: SatoshiPoint
Role: Managing Director

SatoshiPoint is the UK’s largest Bitcoin ATM business, starting out in London in 2014 and initially struggling to find locations for the ATMs SatoshiPoint has since gone on to thrive and now operates in over 40 locations across the...