Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

Future Technologies always to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast.

Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.

We're just around the corner.

From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing,

blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

Today's guest, we have Mate Toque.

He hails from Hungary and he's the CEO of Bitcoin.com.

This is a website where you can get a lot of information about Bitcoin,

even if you know nothing about it.

You can download a wallet.

You can buy Bitcoin, sell them, exchange them.

You can do quite a bit, and it's a great place to get started

if you have an interest in Bitcoin and just don't know how to go about it.

Matti started out from an unusual arena.

He started out as a wakeboard world champion.

From what he tells me in the interview, that's where a boat will tow someone on a surfboard.

So he was a wakeboard world champion.

And he had migrated.

His interest had changed and he got involved with Bitcoin.

His first site was Bitcoinist.net.

It's a site where he has a lot of blogs about Bitcoin and digital currency industries,

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