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We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network

TIP244: Bitcoin Basics w/ Leading Expert Tuur Demeester (Bitcoin Podcast)

We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network

Stig Brodersen

Education, Investing, Business

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

During this week’s episode, Preston and Stig talk to leading crypto-expert, Tuur Demeester. Tuur is a world-renown economist and investor that focuses on Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies. During the discussion, Tuur explains some of his opinions on why some technologies and protocols.

In this episode, you'll learn:

  • Why and how Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey want to utilize the technology behind cryptocurrency
  • Why Bitcoin will prevail and remain the most valuable cryptocurrency
  • How to understand the cycles of Bitcoin
  • What the biggest risk is for Bitcoin investors

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to TI-P.

0:30.0

Mr. TURDA MACETER. When we talk to TURDA, we're not covering advanced crypto topics.

0:34.4

Instead, we're going to talk about the reason the Bitcoin community believes in this movement so

0:38.6

strongly and how some of the technology works and what it's trying to achieve.

0:42.6

In short, this is our coverage of Bitcoin 101. So if you've ever tried to understand the why

0:47.6

behind this movement, TURDA is one of the best people you could ever listen to.

0:51.6

So without further delay, here's our coverage of Bitcoin Basics.

0:55.8

You are listening to the Investors Podcast.

1:01.6

Where we study the financial markets and read the books that influence self-made billionaires

1:06.3

the most. We keep you informed and prepared for the unexpected.

1:19.2

Hey everyone, welcome to the Investors Podcast. I'm your host Preston Pishon.

1:22.6

As always, I'm accompanied by my co-host, Stig Broderson. I'll tell you, we are really pumped to

1:27.6

have TURDA back on the show. TURDA, welcome back to the Investors Podcast. Always awesome to have

1:32.7

you here. Hi Preston. I stick. Good to be back. There has been a lot that has happened since the

1:39.4

last time we talked. The last time we talked, I believe, was in 2017 during the meteoric rise

1:46.9

of Bitcoin and many other crypto coins. After we saw at peak, at least Bitcoin peak in December of

1:54.0

2017, we've had about an 80% decline in the price of Bitcoin. I think it got down into the

2:01.7

what mid-3000 range or something like that. But since that bottoming, which probably happened

2:07.2

a few months ago, Bitcoin has had a little bit of a surge here and I think it just hit over

2:11.8

$6,000. So my question to you, TURDA, is I think everybody who's listening to this is wondering

2:18.4

this question. Why is Bitcoin still relevant today? Yeah, and why does it remain relevant

2:24.3

throughout these rallies and crashes? We've seen several of them. The first one in 2010,

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