Tales from the Crypt #44: Alan Silbert

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2018

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Join Marty as he sits down with Alan Silbert, Executive Managing Director of INX Limited, to chat about the old days and his experience starting Bitpremier.com, a site where people could spend BTC to buy luxury goods. Alan explains how he got into Bitcoin, how his side hustle pushed him to leave his main hustle and what it's like to get a call from Homeland Security. Follow Alan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alansilbert Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Check out INX Limited: https://www.inx.co Thank you to our sponsors: Cash App, download the app here - https://cash.app/ HoneyMiner, enter to win a GPU here - https://twitter.com/gethoneyminer/status/1052200242781786112 Download Honeyminer here - https://honeyminer.com/referred/59rtk

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0:00.0	Well, hey there, freaks. I hope all as well. It's your boy Marty here doing a little pre-episode
0:06.7	recording to introduce our sponsors before I get into our sponsors. A little bit about today's
0:12.2	episode. It's been a while since I hopped in the studio for a face-to-face long-form conversation.
0:18.0	I was very excited for this one. Sat down with Alan Silbert from INX in Maryland,
0:23.9	and we had a really cool conversation. He's been around for a while. I've been a fan of his
0:28.4	on Twitter for a bit, and we just talked about the old days and some other stuff pertaining
0:34.4	to Bitcoin. But before we get into the interview,
0:37.8	I'd like to thank our sponsors for our sponsor today.
0:40.4	It's the Cash App.
0:41.3	You already know.
0:42.2	The Cash App is the number one finance app in the App Store.
0:45.2	What you might not know is that you can also put Cash App in your wallet with the cash card.
0:49.6	I've talked about this before.
0:51.3	The cash card, you can customize it, write your name on it, signature,
0:54.7	you can put Bitcoin on it, you can do whatever you want basically in a little area in
1:00.6	the bottom right hand corner of the front of the card. This card enables you to use the boost
1:05.8	program, which is on the app and this gets you incredible deals at real retailers like Whole Foods,
1:11.9	Shake Shack, Chipotle, coffee shops, dollar off any coffee shop you go to.
1:17.7	It's an incredible program.
1:19.4	I've used it literally, literally 15 minutes ago.
1:23.7	And then before that, 12 hours ago at Whole Foods and the coffee shop around the corner.
1:29.6	Saving money with the cash app many times a day.
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