Be Your Own Banker with Pascal Gauthier - WBD158
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Location: Skype Date: Wednesday, 2nd October Project: Ledger Role: CEO
One of the earliest bits of advice a Bitcoin beginner will get will be to not keep their coins on an exchange.
By keeping coins on an exchange, hodlers expose themselves to counterparty risk and undermine many of Bitcoin's inherent benefits. When you invest in an asset that allows you to be self-sovereign and take trust away from 3rd parties, why immediately give that up?
While some exchanges, like Kraken, take their security incredibly seriously, the history of Bitcoin is littered with exchange hacks and the theft of coins. In just the last 12 months Binance, Bithumb and Cryptopia have all been hacked, with the latter closing down.
There are many ways to manage your private keys, and hardware wallets are one of the most secure and simple options. Ledger is one of the leading hardware wallet manufacturers and has recently celebrated its 5th birthday.
In this interview, I speak to Pascal Gauthier; CEO at Ledger. Ledger recently celebrated their 5th birthday, so I got Pascal on the show to discuss hardware wallets, being your own banker, competition and what's to come from Ledger.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the What Bit |
| 0:02.0 | the What Bit |
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| 0:08.0 | Hi there from Los Angeles, how are you all? |
| 0:09.0 | Did you have a good weekend? |
| 0:10.0 | I'm out here at CIS. |
| 0:11.0 | I hosted a couple of fireside chats today at the conference. |
| 0:14.4 | One with Tim Draper, first time I met him, so that was super cool and then I did one |
| 0:18.4 | with my boy Travis Kling. Hopefully I'm going to get copies of those and release |
| 0:21.8 | them out on the show. |
| 0:23.0 | Anyway, welcome to the What Bitcoin did podcast, which is brought to you by The Mighty Cracken, |
| 0:27.0 | the best place to buy and sell Bitcoin. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm your host Peter McCormack, and today I've got an interview with the CEO of Ledger Pascal Guttier and |
| 0:34.6 | sorry this is a bit late and it's been a busy day so I'm just sneaking out at the end of |
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