353: Peter McCormack on Bitcoin, Podcasting, and The World

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Peter McCormack is a journalist who hosts two popular podcasts, What Bitcoin Did and Defiance. He previously ran an advertising agency and has grown to be one of the most recognizable people in the Bitcoin industry. In this conversation, we discuss Bitcoin, Roger Ver, podcasting, the pandemic, the recession, the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing response, and the US election. =============================== When the New Yorker magazine asked Mark Zuckerberg how he gets his news he said the one news source he definitely follows is Techmeme. For more than two years and nearly 700 episodes, The Techmeme Ride Home has been Silicon Valley’s favorite tech news podcast. The Techmeme Ride Home is a daily podcast, only fifteen to twenty minutes long, and every day by 5pm eastern its ALL the latest tech news. =============================== The World Series of Trading (WSOT) is the first of its kind to bring the exhilaration of crypto trading competition to the global stage. WSOT believes in the importance of empowering traders who embody the passion and power for crypto trading. This bi-annual event aims to champion the spirit of competition, fair play, and cultivate camaraderie among crypto derivatives traders from around the world with the ultimate goal of creating positive change in the crypto space. This year’s prize pool is a whopping 200 BTC. Sign up here: http://www.bybit.com/wsot_warmup? =============================== Pomp writes a daily letter to over 50,000 investors about business, technology, and finance. He breaks down complex topics into easy to understand language, while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry. You can subscribe at https://www.pompletter.com

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp.
0:04.1	You're listening to the Pomp podcast, simply the best podcast out there. Let's kick this thing off.
0:10.5	Peter McCormick is a journalist who hosts two popular podcasts, what Bitcoin did and defines.
0:16.7	He previously ran an advertising agency and has grown to be one of the most recognizable people
0:20.9	in the Bitcoin industry. Peter is also one of my good friends. In this conversation, we
0:26.4	discussed Bitcoin, Roger Verr, podcasting, the pandemic, the recession, the Federal Reserve's
0:32.4	quantitative easing response, and the U.S. election. This episode was a lot of fun, and I hope you enjoy it.
0:39.1	Before we get into the episode, though, I want to quickly talk about our sponsors.
0:42.9	I've been telling you for weeks now about the TechMeme Ride Home podcast. It's a daily
0:47.9	tech news podcast that anyone who is anyone in Silicon Valley listens to every day.
0:52.8	But did you know that the Tech Meme Ride Home also has bonus interview episodes on the weekend? They listens to every day. But did you know that the tech meme ride home
0:54.7	also has bonus interview episodes on the weekend? They talked to newsmakers that hit the headlines
0:59.5	of that very week. Past and future guests include Howard Linson, AOL founder Steve Case
1:05.6	on investing outside of the Valley, Andresen Horowitz's Connie Chan on Super Apps,
1:12.8	Andresen Horowitz's Angela Strange on why every company will be a fintech company, Mark German on Apple Rumors, Jay Yarrow of CNBC,
1:19.4	Eric Jackson on the Streaming Wars, Matt Stoller on Silicon Valley Monoplies, and Gary Marcus
1:24.9	on building AI we can trust. The TechMeme Ride Home podcast gives you the headlines, context, and conversation around the world of tech every single weekday.
1:34.4	And on the weekends, it sets the conversation with great interviews with Silicon Valley luminaries.
1:39.2	Search your podcast app now and subscribe to the TechMeme Ride Home podcast.
1:44.4	Our next sponsor is the World Series of Trading from Bybit.
1:48.4	It's a first of its kind to bring the exhilaration of crypto trading competition to the global stage.
1:53.3	The World Series of Trading believes in empowering traders who embody the passion and power
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