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🗓️ 4 November 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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An enlightening conversation with Reason’s Jim Epstein, who just released a four-part YouTube documentary on the cypherpunk movement.
This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com and Nexo.io.
Jim Epstein is the executive editor of ReasonTV podcasts, and the producer of the recent documentary “Cypherpunks Write Code.”
In this conversation, he gives NLW a behind the scenes look on the interviews and conversations that went into the documentary, including how the cypherpunks started, schisms in the movement, and how the movement lives on today.
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1:24.7 | What's going on, guys? It is Wednesday, November 4th, and today I am so excited to share a conversation with Jim Epstein. |
1:33.6 | Jim is the executive editor of Reason, TV, and podcasts, and as part of that role, he recently produced a four-part documentary series called Cypherpunks Write Code. |
1:45.9 | It's the story of a movement that laid the intellectual and technology foundations |
1:51.0 | that still serve us today, most notably in the emergence of Bitcoin as both an economic |
1:57.6 | and a political force. This conversation is meant to serve as a companion to that |
2:03.6 | documentary, and we get to go deeper into some of the stories as well as the things Jim learned |
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