BREAKDOWN: Peter McCormack On A Defiant New Era For Bitcoin
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Peter McCormack is one of the most prominent podcasters in the space. In 2019, he added a new podcast called “Defiance” and focused on the intersection of bitcoin, human rights, and political activism to complement his “What Bitcoin Did” podcast. In this special end of year episode of The Breakdown, Peter discusses why the past year represents an inflection point for citizen action and sovereign protest around the world, and why 2020 is likely to see a continued bloodletting among non-bitcoin cryptoassets.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the breakdown. |
| 0:07.0 | An everyday analysis breaking down the most important stories in Bitcoin, crypto, and beyond, with your host, NLW. |
| 0:15.0 | The Breakdown is distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome back to the breakdown's end-of-year extravaganza. |
| 0:31.4 | So every day between now and New Year's, instead of a normal episode, I'll be posting at least one interview with an interesting thinker-doer, operator, investor, et cetera, |
| 0:36.5 | in the crypto or Bitcoin space, asking them |
| 0:39.5 | two questions. |
| 0:41.3 | One, what was the most important story or narrative of 2019? |
| 0:45.7 | And two, what's one prediction for 2020? |
| 0:47.9 | It's an amazing group of people that we have here. |
| 0:50.0 | And I think a really fun way to think back and look back on the year that was and maybe look forward to the year that's about to start. |
| 0:58.0 | And so today we're going to kick it off with Peter McCormick. |
| 1:01.1 | Most of you know Peter McCormick. |
| 1:02.8 | He's a very successful podcaster behind the What Bitcoin Did podcast. |
| 1:07.0 | This year, he launched the Defiance podcast, which is a lot of what we talk about is the emergence |
| 1:13.0 | and really the crescendo of citizen action and the fight for sovereignty and how that overlaps |
| 1:19.1 | with Bitcoin. So it's a really, really fun little interview. I hope you enjoy it. And if you like |
| 1:23.9 | it, subscribe so you don't miss out on any of the upcoming end of year breakdown episodes as well. |
| 1:29.9 | With that, let's kick it over and let's start the interview with Peter McCormick from what Bitcoin did. |
| 1:38.1 | All right. |
| 1:39.3 | I am talking with Peter McCormick, the undisputed podcaster of 2019, I think. |
| 1:45.2 | It's got to be said. |
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