SLP143 Eduardo Gomez - Bitcoin as a sour...

About this episode

Eduardo Gomez, head of customer support at Purse.io joins me to talk about some interesting developments in Venezuela and bitcoin being used to transfer value across borders. We talk about:

Eduardo’s background
Bitcoin as source of truth
Petro
Stablecoins
What’s needed in terms of tooling and education
Bitcoin in Argentina

Eduardo links:

Twitter: @codiox
Purse: purse.io

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