The Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network has added a new show to its lineup, “What Bitcoin Did.” The WBD podcast is hosted by U.K.-based Peter McCormack, an “accidental Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency investor, miner, blogger and podcaster.” His show, an industry interview program, follows important figures and developments in and around the crypto space.
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What’s the next level beyond being a cryptocurrency investor? That would be achieving the status of bitcoin entrepreneur.
Imagine not only profiting from your trades but being the one who built the exchange you executed it on; created the portfolio platform for your digital asset holdings; designed a comprehensive bitcoin banking platform; acquired a cryptocurrency hardware wallet manufacturer; and/or were among the first to see your bitcoin business acquired for a significant sum.
Those moves aren’t an imagined scenario. They’re the real-life portfolio highlights of Erik Voorhees[2], reflecting his involvement with ShapeShift.io[3], Prism[4], Coinapult[5], KeepKey[6] and SatoshiDice[7] respectively. He’s been accumulating these credentials since 2012, when he launched SatoshiDice, the well-known gambling website that proved to be the first of Voorhees’ many wagers on crypto’s future.
Voorhees went in-depth on those bets, and the reasons why they’re no sure thing, in a candid interview with Peter McCormack on Episode 22 of his podcast series What Bitcoin Did[8], which marks the latest addition to the Let’s Talk Bitcoin[9] network. The conversation that resulted from their London meetup was equal parts engaging and sobering, offering a painful reminder of why many new crypto services may face a complicated rollout before they can take off, particularly in the U.S.
Oversight Overdose
Voorhees’ markedly libertarian leanings have driven him to innovate within the bitcoin
