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What Bitcoin Did with Peter McCormack

May 29, 2020

Location: Zoom
Date: Thursday 28th May
Project: Abra
Role: Founder & CEO

This week, Goldman Sachs held an investment advisory call for its clients during which it slammed Bitcoin as an investment and refused to accept it as an asset class. 

Goldman's take on Bitcoin was in equal parts bearish and ignorant, with the...


May 26, 2020

Location: Zoom
Date: Friday 22nd May
Role: Independent Trader

Despite being the best performing asset over the past decade, Bitcoin is an incredibly volatile asset and risky to trade. Outperforming the market is hard, and very few people manage to beat the strategy of buying and holding.

Unlike traditional markets,...


May 22, 2020

Location: Zoom
Date: Monday 18th May
Project: Gemini
Role: Co-Founders

The Social Network, directed by David Fincher, introduced Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss to the world. The film told the story of how Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea to create Facebook, and would later settle for $65 million.

After settling the court...


May 19, 2020

Location: Zoom
Date: Friday 15th May
Project: Blockstream
Role:
CEO & Chief Strategy Officer

Bitcoin: decentralised, permissionless, censorship-resistant and unconfiscatable. Unique properties which make it a unique form of money

For Bitcoin to keep growing, these features mustn't be compromised. However, scaling...


May 15, 2020

Location: Zoom
Date: January to March 2020

Bitcoin can be intimidating for beginners. The protocol is complicated, the community can be unforgiving, silly mistakes can lose you money, and it is easy to succumb to altcoin marketing. 

Bitcoin offers you the opportunity to hold a new type of monetary asset, one which can't...