BTC041: Bitcoin Banking & Infrastructure w/ Bill Barhydt (Bitcoin Podcast)

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Stig Brodersen

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🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:

Bill's experience reading the Bitcoin white paper weeks after it was released
Why Bill wanted to build a Bitcoin bank right from the start
The expectation for Bitcoin policy moving forward
Thoughts on digital assets versus digital asset securities
Proof of Reserves for exchanges
Would Bill consider loans that have no-rehypothecation as a product at Abra?

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to TIP.
0:30.0	You're listening to Bitcoin Fundamentals by the Investors Podcast Network.
1:00.0	Hey everyone, so like I said in the introduction, I'm here with Bill Barheight and Bill.
1:15.2	We've had a few conversations on Clubhouse and some other spots and the thing that I always
1:20.2	tell myself after leaving the conversation is, wow, this guy is brilliant and I wish
1:25.3	I had more time to talk with him, so I'm really excited to be able to do a one-on-one like this.
1:30.6	Wow, what an introduction.
1:31.7	Well, hopefully I can look today.
1:33.4	No, this is great.
1:34.4	So I want to start off by just hearing your Bitcoin story.
1:38.2	How did you get into this in the first place and then we'll just go from there?
1:42.8	Bitcoin was almost like a long time coming for me.
1:45.4	I've been working in internet and payments and tech and capital markets and just the intersection
1:50.7	of all that for really 25 plus years and worked on a lot of certificate authority deployments
1:57.4	and SSL deployments for banking or a minute-scape days.
2:01.0	We actually partnered with DigiCash if anybody remembers that company.
2:03.6	We didn't go very well, both we did.
2:05.8	And so I had a long hair, the earring, cypherpunk days going back to the early 90s, believe
2:12.2	or not.
2:14.2	But look, when I read the white paper, it couldn't have been more than three months after he
2:18.4	posted it.
2:19.4	I was working on a remittance project in Haiti at the time.
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