Erik Voorhees on Understanding Libertarianism - WBD150
Mr Obnoxious
Peter McCormack
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2019
⏱️ 85 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Location: Denver
Date: Wednesday, 18th September
Project: ShapeShift
Role: Founder & CEO
Since its birth over 10 years ago, Bitcoin has resonated with Libertarians. Through its very design, Bitcoin aligns closely with the Libertarian belief that governments should have no interference in people's lives or money.
Helped by popular Bitcoin books such as Saifedean Ammous’ The Bitcoin Standard, more and more newcomers to Bitcoin are becoming aware of Libertarianism as well as Austrian Economics. However, these can be confusing concepts to grasp, especially for those growing up always accepting and/or believing that there must be a state.
So, what is Libertarianism? Should we strive for smaller decentralised societies with little or no government intervention or regulation? And could Bitcoin play a key role in reducing the size of governments around the world?
In this interview, I speak with Erik Voorhees the Founder and CEO at ShapeShift. Erik explains the theory behind a Libertarian state, reducing the size of governments, minarchism vs anarchism, and internal Libertarian conflict points.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the What Bit Bitcoin Did Podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello there from sunny Palm Springs. |
| 0:08.0 | How are you all? |
| 0:09.0 | Did you have a good weekend? |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to the What Bit coin did podcast, |
| 0:12.0 | which is brought to you by the mighty |
| 0:13.2 | Cracken the best place to buy and sell Bitcoin. I'm your host Peter McCormack and |
| 0:17.6 | today I've got an interview with Eric Voorhe. He's from Shape Shift discussing |
| 0:21.1 | libertarianism but before that I do have a message from my show sponsors |
| 0:24.8 | and remember don't skip these it is the sponsors that allow me to travel around the world |
| 0:29.2 | and do all these amazing interviews okay so firstly today's show is brought to you by my good friends over at Block Fye, and they have just |
| 0:37.2 | made a couple of very cool announcements with their interest accounts, they have dropped minimum |
| 0:41.7 | deposits. So all interest |
| 0:43.4 | account holder clients will no longer need to meet a minimum deposit amount in |
| 0:47.0 | their Bitcoin, Ether or GUSD to start earning interest. Additionally BlockFi has |
| 0:52.2 | removed early withdrawal penalties from the account and is now |
| 0:55.0 | offering one free withdrawal per month for all clients. |
| 0:59.3 | Add to this the other recent announcement BlockFi Flex, where you can choose to receive your interest |
| 1:03.6 | payments in the currency of your choice with a Block V interest account you can now |
| 1:07.8 | earn interest in Bitcoin, Eeth or GUSD and they are also offering $10 in free Bitcoin to anyone who signs up for an |
| 1:15.0 | interest account before September the 30th, 2019. So if interest in trying this out, |
| 1:20.6 | I do recommend you do your own research and then head over to BlockFi.com which is |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Peter McCormack, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Peter McCormack and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.