Episode 346: TMBA346: The Early Story of Bitcoin
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
http://www.tropicalmba.com/bitcoin/ Dan and Ian have been talking a lot on the TropicalMBA lately about investments, and those conversations have led them down a lot of interesting paths.
Most notably, that curiosity has led them to explore the future of cryptocurrency, and in particular, Bitcoin. What really compelled us to talk about the Bitcoin story on this show is the strange and incredible cast of characters involved. No one knows that story or those characters better than Nathaniel Popper, a New York Times business reporter and the author of Digital Gold.
On this week's episode, you'll hear Nathaniel share the fascinating details of the history of Bitcoin, and the process of shaping a book based on so many of those crazy stories.
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| 0:00.0 | What is it about this idea, about this technology that seems like a kind of silly gimmick at first glance? |
| 0:06.9 | What is it about that that makes people willing to kind of leave their old lives behind for this? |
| 0:15.4 | Hey, podcast listener. |
| 0:16.8 | Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, right now in your earbuds, |
| 0:21.4 | you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe seeking to grow better, |
| 0:26.6 | more profitable, location-independent businesses. |
| 0:29.5 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, |
| 0:34.7 | check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:51.6 | Behind this scenes here at the TMBA podcast, we've been thinking so much about investments. |
| 0:55.8 | In fact, I literally just got out of a two and a half hour conversation with Ian about it. And this has taken us to a lot of interesting places. And one of them |
| 1:01.3 | is this idea of cryptocurrencies, specifically Bitcoin. It's a strange virtual currency that |
| 1:09.1 | many people that listen to this show talk about often, but I think |
| 1:12.2 | so few of us have really taken the time to understand it. This is interesting for many reasons |
| 1:17.8 | that we're going to talk about with today's interviewee, and there's a lot of resources. So if you |
| 1:22.2 | want to see all the links that we talk about today, you can just head over to tropicalmba.com |
| 1:27.2 | slash Bitcoin. |
| 1:29.1 | So this curiosity about Bitcoin led me to today's guest, Nathaniel Popper, who wrote a book called |
| 1:34.9 | Digital Gold. I found it extremely compelling. And what I really liked about it was containing |
| 1:40.8 | the subtitle. It's called the inside story of the misfits and millionaires |
| 1:45.6 | trying to reinvent money. That got me. And what's particularly interesting about the story of |
| 1:51.4 | Bitcoin is the weird and incredible cast of characters, including the legendary and now |
| 1:57.5 | infamous Silk Road creator Russ Albrecht. |
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