Peter McCormack

The Peter McCormack Show

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The Peter McCormack Show - politics, macro, Bitcoin and AI, long-form interviews. Twice-weekly conversations about money, power, and the shifts reshaping the next decade. Peter McCormack interviews politicians, economists, investors, journalists, founders and Bitcoiners. Past guests include Liz Truss, Lyn Alden, Curtis Yarvin, Matt Goodwin, Mike Green, Balaji Srinivasan, Rupert Lowe, Firas Modad, Scott Horton, Jeff Booth, Connor Leahy, Andrea Miotti, Neema Parvini, Dr Tim Gregory and Simon Dixon. Recurring threads: the debt and inflation endgame, UK political collapse and what comes after, Ref...

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Hassan Khoshtaghaza on Operating a UK Bitcoin ATM - WBD139 16.08.2019 42:24

Location: Skype Date: Monday, 29th July Project: SatoshiPoint Role: Managing Director SatoshiPoint is the UK's largest Bitcoin ATM business, starting out in London in 2014 and initially struggling to find locations for the ATMs SatoshiPoint has since gone on to thrive and now operates in over 40 locations across the UK. With their ATM volumes now exceeding the peak Bitcoin volumes, seen during the...

Bitcoin ATM Regulations with Bill Repasky - WBD138 15.08.2019 1:04:40

Location: Skype Date: Wednesday, 15th August Project: Frost Brown Todd LLC Role: Corporate Attorney Regulations are have always been in front of mind for the Bitcoin industry. Ever-increasing surveillance has accompanied the evolution of technology, primarily financial surveillance. Bitcoin is the first money owned by the people and is often seen as a threat to the state, as such the state has str...

Putting Bitcoin on Every Block with Chris Yim from LibertyX - WBD137 14.08.2019 57:52

Location: Skype Date: Monday, 29th July Project: LibertyX Role: Co-Founder & CEO LibertyX launched the first Bitcoin ATM in the U.S. Starting out with a single machine at Boston's South Station they have grown to operate the largest network of Bitcoin ATMs, cashiers and kiosks. Unlike many other operators, LibertyX has spread its wings beyond ATMs, integrating their system with the traditional net...

Karel Kyovsky on Manufacturing Bitcoin ATMs - WBD136 13.08.2019 58:54

Location: Skype Date: Sunday, 21st July Project: General Bytes Role: Owner Since the first Bitcoin ATMs started appearing in 2013, the market has grown at a significant rate, seemingly unaffected by Bitcoin's volatility. With a fast-paced market and strong competition, manufacturers have to keep up with a growing demand for machines and new feature requests. General Bytes has become the largest ma...

Operating Bitcoin ATMs with Gil Valentine & Eric Gravengaard from Athena - WBD135 12.08.2019 55:30

Location: Chicago Date: Tuesday, 2nd July Project: Athena Bitcoin Role: Compliance Officer, CEO and Co-Founders The Bitcoin ATM market continues to grow, and according to a recent report by Coin ATM Radar there are now over 5,000 Bitcoin ATMs worldwide. While the vast majority are located in the United States, a growing number are appearing in countries where the general population may have less a...

John Newbery on Building a Bitcoin Developer Community - WBD134 09.08.2019 1:27:42

Location: New York Date: Friday, 26th July Project: Chaincode Labs Role: Bitcoin Engineer As an open source initiative, Bitcoin does not have a central fund to pay developers. Instead, it relies on a community of committed devs and a core group of companies and Bitcoin philanthropists to fund them. One of the companies leading the way in providing a platform for these developers is Chaincode Labs....

Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole with Matt Odell & Marty Bent - WBD133 06.08.2019 1:29:33

Location: New York Date: Friday, 26th July Project: Tales from the Crypt & Rabbit Hole Recap Role: Founders/Presenters There are a handful of Bitcoiners who bleed orange, those with so much conviction it is hard to listen to them talk about Bitcoin and dismiss its importance. Matt Odell is one of those, and I have a little secret for you, Matt was the trigger for taking What Bitcoin Did full Bitco...

Pieter Wuille on Building Bitcoin - WBD132 02.08.2019 1:09:10

Location: San Fransisco Date: Monday 22nd July Company: Blockstream Role: Co-founder Pieter Wuille is one of the most influential, respected and prolific Bitcoin developers. While his career began at Google, the appeal of working on Bitcoin's open-source protocol was too tempting and led him to co-found Blockstream. Pieter has had a significant influence on the Bitcoin project and has the third mo...

Silvergate's Alan Lane on Banking the Corporate Unbanked - WBD131 30.07.2019 1:10:10

Location: San Diego Date: Tuesday, 16th July Company: Silvergate Bank Role: CEO Since Satoshi's left the message, "Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" in the genesis block, Bitcoin has been the antithesis of banks. "Be your own bank", perhaps an overused phrase from Bitcoin proponents certainly comes under question for companies building Bitcoin-based businesses. Businesses need Fiat...

Bitcoin is More Than a Financial System with Zac Prince & Jeremy Welch - WBD130 26.07.2019 1:15:55

During the previous bull run, the hype led to an influx of companies using Bitcoin or 'blockchain' to inflate value and attract investment. Many of these were questionable projects, and some were outright scams. Even legitimate companies struggled with the difficulty of creating value with Bitcoin, as companies failed two thrived: Casa and BlockFi. BlockFi is building financial products for Bitcoi...

Nicholas Percoco on Defending the Crypto Honeypot - WBD129 23.07.2019 1:25:40

Exchange hacks have been a constant thorn in the side of the industry. Where a physical bank robbery of $millions will make headline news, a +$100m exchange hack will barely break out of the crypto news media. Exchange hacks are now so commonplace that a recent report from Ledger's CEO Eric Larcheveque found that the equivalent of $2.7 million a day was stolen from exchanges last year. Almost all...

Juthica Chou on The First Physically Settled Bitcoin Futures - WBD128 21.07.2019 46:58

There are a few places retail investors can currently trade a Bitcoin futures contract, but these tend to clouded in regulatory uncertainty and most are unavailable to US retail traders. That's about to change though as LedgerX have recently announced both the first regulated physically settled Bitcoin futures contract and the launch of a new trading platform called Omni which, for the first time,...

Saifedean Ammous on Understanding Bitcoin Economics - WBD127 19.07.2019 1:17:48

When landing in the world of Bitcoin there are many concepts down the rabbit hole to get lost in, from technology to economics there is a wealth of information available. Within the world of economics, many will discover the theory of Austrian economics for the first time. Those who believe in Austrian Economics believe in free markets, the gold standard and minimal government intervention. So whe...

Michel Rauchs on The Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index - WBD126 16.07.2019 58:32

Whenever you hear about Bitcoin in the mainstream media, undoubtedly one of the things that comes up time and time again is the power consumption needed to secure the network and which is the latest country Bitcoin has overtaken on power usage. Is this something Bitcoiners should be worried about and can the criticism be written off as a way for Bitcoin naysayers to ignore it for a little longer?...

Neha Narula on Bitcoin Security and Ethics - WBD125 12.07.2019 51:42