Ep. 1064 The Debate Within Bitcoin: Jameson Lopp vs. Roger Ver on Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Bitcoin Cash, which resulted from a Bitcoin fork, has been championed by its proponents as being more in line with Satoshi Nakamoto's original vision for the cryptocurrency, and as helping to solve some of the problems that Bitcoin currently faces. Critics aren't so sure. Jameson Lopp of BitGo and Roger Ver of Bitcoin.com square off on all this in today's episode.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1064. |
| 0:03.5 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.0 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:14.2 | Folks, one of my favorite libertarian podcasts out there is Lions of Liberty, hosted by the great |
| 0:19.6 | Mark Clare. |
| 0:20.8 | There really is no other libertarian |
| 0:22.8 | podcast quite like it. I've been a guest twice. Check it out at Lions of Liberty.com. |
| 0:29.7 | Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. All right, we've got today a kind of a, not a debate about |
| 0:35.4 | cryptocurrency, but a kind of debate within Bitcoin that has been going on for a little while and has generated quite a bit of heat and interest. |
| 0:45.0 | And I think it's safe to say that probably Bitcoin has never attracted more attention and commentary than it is attracting right now. |
| 0:54.0 | So this seemed like an opportune |
| 0:55.6 | moment to have this particular conversation. And in particular, so in other words, if you're |
| 1:01.0 | interested in what is Bitcoin and how does it work and what's the infrastructure of it, |
| 1:05.2 | I have other episodes on that that'll be linked on the show notes page for today, which is |
| 1:09.2 | Tom Woods.com slash 1064. |
| 1:11.4 | This gets a bit more into the weeds, but I have so many people demanding this that I thought, |
| 1:17.4 | you know, what am I here for if not to do the people's will? So in particular, I have two people |
| 1:22.2 | with us today who are going to talk about Bitcoin Cash, abbreviated BCH, and Bitcoin, abbreviated BTC, and talk about the different |
| 1:32.6 | visions of Bitcoin that both represent and where both are going and the relative merits of each one. |
| 1:39.3 | So our two discussants today are Roger Veer, who is CEO of Bitcoin.com, and Jameson Lopp, who is |
| 1:47.0 | Infrastructure Team Lead at Bitco. So I'm going to let each of them, I'm going to be a little |
| 1:52.2 | less formal than we normally are in these debates. We don't even have an official resolution. |
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