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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Tales from the Crypt #35: Bitcoin Sign Guy

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2018

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Join Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Sign Guy to talk about the infamous day he held a "Buy Bitcoin" sign behind Janet Yellen as she gave a congressional testimony, what drives him philosophically, and what technologies like Bitcoin and 3D printers will enable in the future. *WARNING* This may be the drunkest TFTC episode to date. Enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0

In Zanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree, where Alf the sacred river ran through caverns, measureless to man, down to a sunless sea.

0:09.4

I think we found our intro.

0:14.7

Failed from the crimps.

0:22.7

Wow!

0:24.9

Your boy Marty fucked up.

0:26.7

Bigly.

0:28.2

What is up freaks?

0:30.5

Welcome back to Tales from the Crypt.

0:34.7

It's your boy Marty Bent and holding my hand up here.

0:35.5

I just messed up.

0:39.3

I just had an incredible 20-minute conversation with my guest and did not hit record. So we were speaking into the Biss. I learned a lot in that 20 minutes.

0:45.3

We are going to reverse it. I'm going to speed up this intro. I gave him a nice, you know what,

0:50.5

I'm going to give you the same intro as I did the first time. Please. My guest tonight, you all know him in some way or fashion.

0:57.9

You don't hear from him much.

1:00.2

He's had one big bang moment and was around this time last year on July 12th, 2017,

1:06.9

when during the Federal Reserve, it was a congressional committee actually, it was a congressional

1:13.3

committee grilling the Federal Reserve chairwoman, Janet Yellen, and our dear friend here

1:22.0

had the gall to sit behind her and hold up a buy-bidcoin sign as serendipitously as a ticker below

1:31.5

the Bloomberg. The Bloomberg ticker was, had the headline. Federal Reserve is not open to an audit.

1:41.0

I want to introduce you all to Bitcoin Sign Guy. Bitcoin Sign Guy for the second

1:45.0

time, welcome to Tales from the Crypt. How are you? Thank you so much, Marty, and for your charitable

1:51.1

introduction. It's very kind. I'm sorry. I feel like I just wasted 20 minutes of your valuable life.

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