The Peter McCormack Show

Location: El Salvador Date: Thursday 17th June Project: Strike Role: CEO El Salvador made history by becoming the first country to embrace bitcoin as legal tender. This bold step to adopt Bitcoin empowers Salvadorians and utilises Bitcoin's powerful technology to build a better financial future for the country. As a dollarised country, El Salvador is at the whim of the Fed, and the groundbreaking...

Location: Miami Date: Monday 7th June Project: Griid Infrastructure Role: WP of Strategy Bitcoin mining has been subjected to a considerable amount of criticism over recent years, but the number of articles disseminating misinformation has exploded over the last few months. Almost every mainstream media outlet has shared ill-researched hit pieces, and several hugely influential figures, from Elon...

Location: New York Date: Wednesday 9th June Project: michaelmalice.com Role: Author It's a common misconception that anarchy revolves around chaos and war when it is simply about freedom. Anarchists want to see the removal of all government and society to run on an entirely voluntary, cooperative basis. While it's uncertain what our world would look like without rulers, technology is the greatest...

Location: New York Date: Wednesday 9th June As of February 2021, annual growth in the money supply reached 39% in the US, leading to widespread fears of inflation and the impact on the economy. Consumer prices soared 5% in May, the largest increase since 2008. While the Fed has argued that inflation will revert to normal by next year, others are looking to hedge the risk of inflation. Bitcoin is v...

Location: Guatemala Date: Wednesday 26th May Project: Head of Business Development Role: Host The Gradually, Then Suddenly series by Parker Lewis on the Unchained Capital blog is an excellent resource for readers with any level of knowledge. Bitcoin is not intuitive at first, and these articles cover many of the most common sticking points people come across when they fall down the rabbit hole. Pa...

Location: Miami Date: Tuesday 25th May Project: Block Digest Role: Host Bitcoin is an entirely decentralised network, and as such, by definition, it has no authoritative organisation to dictate or coordinate rule changes. Instead, any improvements or changes must be community-driven. Changes to Bitcoin are rare, and when the developers propose protocol changes, they go through a strenuous review a...

Location: Los Angeles Date: Thursday 27th May Project: Thiel Capital Role: MD Bitcoin can be a toxic place. If you question a narrative or fall on the wrong side of a debate, you will quickly find yourself on the receiving end of the 'bitcoin plebs', and rarely a day passes without a fight of some kind exploding on Twitter. Earlier this year, Eric Weinstein found himself amongst a heated discussio...

Location: Los Angeles Date: Friday 28th May Project: lynalden.com Role: Macroeconomist Over the last few weeks, the ESG narrative regarding Bitcoin has been growing, and we have seen a constant stream of misinformed FUD surrounding the energy sources and usage of Bitcoin miners. The primary catalyst for this narrative, and the recent drop in price, was when Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla had "suspen...

Location: Chicago Date: Wednesday 26th May Project: Kraken Role: Growth Lead When Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla had "suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin" due to their concerns "about the rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions", the market went into freefall, dropping from around $58k to just below $30k in just a few days. Since then, the market has reacted...

Location: Remotely Date: Monday 24th May Project: The Human Rights Foundation & Castle Island Ventures Role: Chief Strategy Officer & Partner Bitcoin is in the midst of an immense cycle of FUD. In the last few weeks alone, Elon Musk has questioned the energy consumption, China has again imposed regulations on bitcoin miners, and even the Pope raised fears concerning fossil fuels. As Bitcoiners, we...

Location: El Salvador Date: Monday 10th May Project: Independent Role: Bitcoin Writer Growing food, gunpowder and the printing press, while these don't appear to have much in common, they have been the catalyst for some of the most fundamental shifts ever seen in human history. The agricultural revolution led man from small groups of hunter-gatherers to relatively large settled communities; this p...

Location: Guatemala Date: Thursday 20th May Project: Hypersheet Role: Co-Founder The last 48 hours have been one of the craziest in Bitcoin, with the price crashing -51% from its peak. Back in April, we were hovering around $60k when a significant number of miners in China went offline due to power plant disruption; after a brief selloff, prices began to recover. Last week a tweet about Bitcoin's...

Location: El Salvador Date: Saturday May 8th Project: USC Marshall School of Business Role: Adjunct Professor of Finance For a long time, asset managers in the traditional finance world have largely ignored bitcoin. Often using outdated and debunked theories as to why bitcoin is another tulip bubble that boils the oceans, kills polar bears and used by drug dealers and criminals. Over the last year...

Location: El Salvador Date: Saturday May 8th Project: tomerstrolight.medium.com Role: Writer The inflationary aspects of fiat money and the ultimate control wielded by the central banks create a rigged game that forces us to consume rather than save. As Tomer Strolight puts it, 'time-travelling thieves are stealing our energy and wealth'. As the soundest money the world has ever known, the magical...

Location: El Salvador Date: Friday 30th April Company: BTC Media Role: CEO & Co-Founder On June 4th & 5th, the Bitcoin world will descend on Miami for the largest Bitcoin-only conference in history. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, conferences and gatherings have been postponed and cancelled. It is fitting that a conference centred around Bitcoin, a tool for freedom that allows people to bypass...

Location: El Salvador Date: Saturday May 8th Company: Strike, Ed Carpenter Racing Role: CEO, Owner Ed Carpenter lives life at over 373 km/h. He's worked his whole life for his dream of racing in the Indy 500. And now, with 18 Indy races under his belt, the finish line is within his sights. But Indy racing requires millions per year in funding, and the way people consume entertainment is changing....

Location: El Salvador Date: Wednesday 5th May Company: n/a Role: n/a Bitcoin is an open and permissionless system that, by design, is available to anyone and everyone who wants to participate, without prejudice or bias. However, while the system is open to all, some of the participants in the system push strong narratives. As a decentralised system with no single entity in control, these bitcoiner...

Location: Remotely Date: Wednesday 21st April Company: Horizon Kinetics Role: Co-Founder & MD Value investing is a simple but highly effective strategy used by some of the world's most renowned traders, most notably Warren Buffet. These investors hunt out stocks that they believe to be trading below their true value. The theory is that the market overestimates both good and bad news, which means s...

Location: Remotely Date: Monday 3rd May Company: Kansas City Chiefs Role: Tight End Sean Culkin rocked the sports world with his recent announcement that he is taking 100% of his $920K salary in bitcoin. Sean is not the first NFL player to dive into bitcoin, but he is the first to take his entire salary in bitcoin in a truly trailblazing move. Sean argues that athletes now need to "view themselves...

Location: Remotely Date: Friday 26th, March Company: lynalden.com Role: Macroeconomist Bitcoin was born out of the 2008 financial crisis when central banks worldwide started printing money at levels never seen before to bail out the banks for a mess they created. Now, a decade later, amid a global pandemic, the money printer is again being used to rescue up a faltering economy. This time, the leve...

Location: Remotely Date: Tuesday 27th April Company: Block Digest, Suredbits Role: Host, Software Engineer Since Bitcoin's inception, scaling has been a divisive topic. The very first reply to Satoshi Nakamoto's email introducing the bitcoin whitepaper stated that "We very, very much need such a system, but the way I understand your proposal, it does not seem to scale to the required size." The sc...

Location: Remotely Date: Tuesday 27th April Company: Kraken Role: Growth Lead When Dan Held first wrote about a possible bitcoin supercycle back in 2019, the idea seemed far fetched. The bitcoin price was just under $10,000, and we were a few months away from the first reported cases of COVID-19. Now, 18 months on from that tweet, the idea of a supercycle is gaining traction. With governments arou...

Location: Remotely Date: Friday 23rd April Company: Pantera Capital Role: Co-Founder & CEO Dan Morehead is a veteran of Wall Street, having worked at Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs before co-founding Pantera Capital. He is the embodiment of institutional investors, and he is predicting bitcoin will hit $115k by August 2021. In 2013, Pantera launched the first cryptocurrency fund in the U.S. and o...

Location: Remotely Date: Wednesday 21st April Company: Kraken & Bitcoin Magazine Role: Editor Ten years ago, in April 2011, Satoshi Nakamoto sent his last known message to Mike Hearn, stating that he had "moved on to other things" and that Bitcoin was "in good hands". Satoshi left the development with Gavin Andresen and a group of contributors and left the Bitcoin community for good. At launch, Bi...

Location: Remotely Date: Tuesday 6th April Company: Strike, Square Crypto & Bitcoin Beach Role: CEO, Bitcoin PM, FounderCIO Bitcoin Beach is an experiment set up by Michael Peterson, trying to help the people of El Salvador. The organisation built a Bitcoin economy in Punta Mango, a small beach town in El Salvador where local businesses now accept Bitcoin, creating a local Bitcoin circular economy...