Jack Mallers

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.6 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

Jack Mallers is an entrepreneur, software developer, and founder of Strike, an application that focuses on making Bitcoin payments fast and easy. Introduced to Bitcoin in 2013 by his father, Mallers has since been a pioneer in the world of cryptocurrency. In 2020, he launched Strike, popularizing Bitcoin by leveraging the Lightning Network, which enables instant payments transactions across digital channels. His work focuses on transforming how people move money, and how to make financial systems more accessible, inclusive, and decentralized to everyone. ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: LMNT Electrolytes https://drinklmnt.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Squarespace https://squarespace.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Lucy https://lucy.co/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ House of Macadamias https://www.houseofmacadamias.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA'

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0:00.0	Tetragrammatine
0:07.0	Tetracketermitone.
0:09.0	Tetrameter.
0:10.0	Teteramatermaton.
0:15.0	Teterratermaton.
0:19.0	Teterramarison. I became aware of Bitcoin early
0:24.6	early 2013 from my dad, my father.
0:29.6	How did your dad know about Bitcoin?
0:32.6	The technical answer is he read a blog post written by Liberty Blitz, Michael Krieger,
0:40.8	who went to Duke University, would write about economics and free markets.
0:45.7	And my dad also went to Duke.
0:47.3	He's a big fan of Mike's blog.
0:48.8	That's a technical answer.
0:50.0	I think the more interesting answer is both my grandfather and my dad were part of the Chicago finance scene, which is very different than New York.
1:01.8	And Chicago finance as a whole was getting into Bitcoin around then.
1:07.3	Is there a Chicago exchange?
1:09.1	Yeah.
1:09.5	So my grandfather was actually the youngest ever chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade.
1:14.6	Wow.
1:15.6	And the New York culture is Wall Street, Goldman Sachs, insider trading, suits, deceitful lying, relationship edges,
1:25.6	right, Wolf of Wall Street, penny stocks. Chicago is the opposite.
1:32.2	Chicago is born out of agriculture commodities, right? The Midwest is where all of the crop
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