Welcome to Almost Here, Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

Future Technologies Boys to Transform Our Lives, for better or worse, are the focus of this podcast.

Almost here means these technologies are now here and

starting to be used.

We're just around the corner.

From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

Okay, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcasts, Round the Corner Technology that is almost here.

Today I have Eric Voorhe, CEO of Shapeshift.io.

Very interesting company, the Digital Exchange company, they allow you to exchange, for example,

Bitcoin to Light coin, Ethereum into Bitcoin, make these exchanges back and forth between different digital currencies.

So welcome Eric, how you doing?

Very good.

Yeah, thanks for being here, I appreciate it.

First question is, how did you come up with this idea to create

shape shift? What was the driving force behind it?

Well the driving force is just that I wanted to use basically what it was providing.

So back, I guess two and a half years ago, I had some Bitcoin's, which is the leading digital currency in the world and there's

hundreds of others and there was another one that I wanted to pick up like five hundred dollars worth

just to kind of gamble on it basically. But I realized that to actually

acquire it was going to take me all afternoon. I was going to have to sign up at an exchange

and deposit the coins and go through a whole big process to get it and I thought well you know

Bitcoin moves anywhere in the world instantly why can't I just snap my fingers and have

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