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Jun 2018
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A Sneak Preview of Saifedean Ammous' The...

Dr. Saifedean Ammous
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Welcome to the audio podcasting home of Saifedean Ammous and The Bitcoin Standard. When a pseudonymous programmer introduced “a new electronic cash system that's fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party” to a small Online mailing list in 2008, very few paid attention. Ten years later, and against all odds, this upstart autonomous decentralized softw ... Show More
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