Hi and welcome to Sabby reasons malicious life besides I I'm Renn Levy.

In last week's episode we told the story of the so-called CypherPunks, a group of libertarians and technologists who in the 1980s

already foresaw how digital currencies might become a threat to our privacy when financial corporations will have unprecedented

visibility into all of our financial decisions, everything we buy online and

every web service we use. The ideas they came up with later became the basic

building blocks of Bitcoin. Our guest in that episode was Jacob Goldstein, co-creator of NPR's Planet Money, host of a podcast called

What's Your Problem and author of Money, The True Story of A Made Up thing. We ended last week's episode with

Satoshi Nakamoto's landmark paper about Bitcoin and in this B-side episode

Nate Nelson, our senior producer, and Jacob Goldstein, continue the conversation about

Bitcoin.

Does Bitcoin implement the ideas and ideals the cipherpunks believed in.

Will Bitcoin and the other cryptocurrencies be able to replace money

as we know it today?

And will governments embrace a future

where they have no control over their

currencies. As I sometimes do, I'll pop up here and there during the conversation

with some relevant additions when needed.

And by the way, have you noticed our new theme music?

It's nice to shake things up once in a while.

Enjoy the episode. So you think about

Jacob think a lot about money.

Our episode is about privacy and money.

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