Brian Patrick Eha
How Money Got Free: Bitcoin and the Fight
Brian Patrick Eha
How Money Got Free: Bitcoin and the Fight
Brian Patrick Eha stops by Talks at Google to discuss his new book, “How Money Got Free: Bitcoin and the Fight for the Future of Finance.” The pioneers of Bitcoin were twenty-first-century outlaws – cryptographers, hackers, Free Staters, ex-cons and drug dealers, teenage futurists and self-taught entrepreneurs armed with a renegade ideology and a grudge against big government and big banks. Now those same institutions are threatening to co-opt or curtail the impact of digital currency. But the pioneers aren’t going down without a fight. Sweeping and provocative, his book reveals how this disruptive technology is shaping the debate around competing ideas of money and liberty, and what that means for our future.
In the space of a few years, Bitcoin has gone from an idea ignored or maligned by almost everyone to an asset with a market cap of more than $12 billion. Venture capital firms, Goldman Sachs, the New York Stock Exchange, and billionaires such as Richard Branson and Peter Thiel have invested more than $1 billion in companies built on this groundbreaking technology.
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