Welcome to the What Bit Bitcoin Did Podcast.

Hello, welcome to episode 9 of the What Bitcoin Did Podcast.

I am your host Peter McCormack,

and this week I have an interview with Morgan Rockwell from

Bitcoin Inc who was recently arrested by the Department of Homeland Security for selling

Bitcoin through local

Bitcoin.com. So I reached out to Morgan. It seemed a pretty

interesting story and asked him if I could come and chat to him about it,

which he agreed to, but this did not turn out to be the interview I had expected.

I became aware of Morgan after seeing a tweet covering his case and although my podcast started out as interviews with traders I kind of

feel like I'm starting to get a bit more interested in some of the more personal

stories in the Bitcoin and crypto space.

So I approached Morgan, I asked him if he would do the interview, he said he was happy to.

So I headed over to Vegas last week to talk to him about his arrest and the case. As I mentioned

earlier, the interview didn't turn out to be exactly as I expected. I thought we

would mainly discuss what was going on with this case and legislation around

Bitcoin and Bitcoin trading. But after doing some more research on him,

I found out he has quite a bit of experience in the

Bitcoin space, so we ended up covering a whole bunch of

topics from the role of Bitcoin and society, how the future machines can use a technology

like Bitcoin to cover payments as well as the role of AI

artificial intelligence. Some of the things we discuss do venture into the

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