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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

#262: Clean water, a prodigal son's journey, and the Bitcoin Water Trust with Scott Harrison

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Join Marty as he sits down with Scott Harrison, Founder and CEO of Charity: Water, to discuss:

- A prodigal son's journey

- Nightclub life

- Hitting rock bottom

- Turning to a life of charity

- Volunteering in Liberia

- Starting Charity: Water

- How Charity: Water brings clean drinking water to those who desperately need it

- Running a charity that allocates funds appropriately

- The Bitcoin Water Trust

- much more

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What is up, Freaks? It's your boy Marty Bent here to introduce this episode of Tales from the Crypt.

0:07.7

I sat down with the CEO of Charity Water, Scott Harrison, to talk about his story, Charity Water's 15-year journey,

0:16.6

how they're bringing potable drinking water and water wells to people all over the world who desperately needed in their mission to get everybody clean drinking water on the face of the earth.

0:26.7

A bold endeavor, a bold mission.

0:30.0

But they're doing it, and they're implementing Bitcoin into their mission as well.

0:33.6

They have a Bitcoin trust, which they're currently accepting Bitcoin donations for.

0:38.5

They're going to put the Bitcoin in this trust, and they're going to hold it until 2025,

0:42.0

at which point that we'll begin dispersing it to bring more water, more clean drinking water to people across the world.

0:47.8

They're going to huddle and then deploy for a very good reason, for a very honorable reason, for a very honorable reason,

0:54.6

for a very virtuous reason, truly virtuous, not virtue signaling,

0:58.1

actually producing water wells that are providing people clean water around the world.

1:03.6

This episode is really interesting.

1:06.4

We focus on charity water throughout most of it and getting Bitcoin at the end.

1:10.1

But Scott's story is incredibly

1:11.5

inspiring and uh it's really uh it was a joy to have a conversation with him about everything that's

1:18.4

going on and my father and law just turned on the fucking leaf blower uh out back so i'm sorry

1:24.0

if the mic is picking that up quite a bit and i don't know if he understands how recording and mics work.

1:30.4

This episode was brought to you by our good friends at the motherfucking

1:33.7

Cashup.

1:38.7

Cash up.

1:39.4

You stack sets, sent sets, receive sets, and sell sets, if you so please.

1:43.1

We're saying sats, sats, sats, sats, sets, sets.

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