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What Bitcoin Did with Peter McCormack

Apr 28, 2020

Location: Zoom
Date: Wednesday 22nd April
Project: Coinkite
Role: CEO & Co-Founder

Bitcoin attracts a broad range of enthusiasts with different backgrounds, experience and political beliefs. The spectrum is broad, from those who treat it purely as a speculative asset, happy to buy and hold, to those who head deep down...


Apr 26, 2020

Location: Zoom
Date: Monday 3th March
Project: Bitcoin & Co Podcast
Role: Host

Earlier this year, I travelled to Venezuela to find out the reality of Bitcoin adoption in the country and what I found didn’t exactly fit the widely accepted narrative. The truth is that while Bitcoin may have some use cases for the middle...


Apr 24, 2020

Location: Zoom
Date: Friday, 10th April
Project: Circle
Role: CEO & Founder

By complementing Bitcoin trading, and making it easy to send digital dollars around the world, stablecoins continue to grow in popularity.

Commercial banks operate on a fractional basis, holding only a small % of deposits. During challenging...


Apr 21, 2020

Location: Zoom
Date: Friday, 10th April
Project: Blockstream
Role: Director of Research

Bitcoin is very conservative. Unlike the typical tech industry ethos of move fast and break things, it is paramount that Bitcoin upgrades and changes to the protocol are absolutely necessary, slow, well planned and well tested.

Two...


Apr 17, 2020

Location: Zoom
Date: Wednesday, 8th April
Project: BlockFi
Role: Co-Founders

On March 12th Bitcoin fell by over 50% from ~$8,000 to ~$3,800. One day earlier, the World Health Organisation had escalated the evolving COVID-19 situation to pandemic status, and Bitcoin wasn't alone in this, markets around the...