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The Peter McCormack Show

Coin Center's Peter Van Valkenburg on Preserving the Freedom to Innovate with Public Blockchains - WBD049

The Peter McCormack Show

Peter McCormack

Politics, Society, Markets, News, Society & Culture, Technology, Inflation, Finance, Economics, Government, Power, Bitcoin, Money

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2018

⏱️ 83 minutes

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0:00.0

You can't just be driven by your fear of negative reputational consequences because if you were you'd stay the hell away from Bitcoin as well

0:09.3

A system that can move millions of dollars across borders is going to have some uses that are very

0:14.2

unsavory. It's also going to I think make the world freer better and be a buttress for

0:19.6

human dignity and prosperity. Welcome to the What Bit Bitcoin did podcast.

0:27.0

Hi there, how are you all?

0:30.0

Welcome to the What Bitcoin did podcast, where you get to hear from the best minds in Bitcoin of crypto.

0:34.0

I'm your host Peter McCormack and this week I have an interview with Peter Van Valkenburg from Coin Center.

0:39.2

But first I have a message from my show sponsors and please check them out these are the people that

0:43.2

help make this show happen so first up let's talk about Derabit again as I mentioned

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1:07.4

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1:21.0

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