Bitcoin is Freedom with Russell Okung - WBD157
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Location: Los Angeles Date: Sunday, 1st September Project: Bitcoin Is Role: Founder
Bitcoin's value lies not in its price but in its innate qualities and the freedom that those qualities offer. It is decentralised, trustless, secure and the hardest money ever to exist. It's irreversible, scarce and accessible to everyone.
But many new to Bitcoin fail to understand these qualities. Usually, a first entry point is a fast-moving bull run where Bitcoin's price is rapidly growing. Whether a newcomer makes gains or gets rekt, not all will stay, and those that do usually venture down the rabbit hole to learn more.
So how do you encourage mass adoption from people who might not understand the full capability of Bitcoin?
Russell Okung is an offensive tackle for the LA Chargers and he's trying to do just that. In September he launched Bitcoin Is, a conference in LA to help encourage mass adoption of Bitcoin.
This show is the fireside chat I hosted with Russell Okung at his event. We discuss what Bitcoin means to Russell, negotiating his own NFL contract, asking to be paid in Bitcoin and controlling your wealth.
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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 | How are you all? |
| 0:10.0 | I finally made it here. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm here a day late because American delayed my flight yesterday so I had to stay an |
| 0:14.8 | extra night in Cleveland but I've got here I'm finally here in Portland wanted a |
| 0:18.9 | visit for a while it seems beautiful but sadly I'm only gonna get one night here due to that delay and that flight. |
| 0:24.9 | So heading out to San Francisco tomorrow, but looking forward to the meetup weather tonight and |
| 0:29.2 | an interview on recording tomorrow. |
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| 0:38.9 | and today I've got a bonus show. This was a fireside chat I recorded with Russell O'Kung at his event, |
| 0:44.2 | Bitcoin is in LA. So it's not a long one, it's about 25 minutes long, but I |
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