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Dec 2019
1h 17m

SLP131 Parker Lewis - Bitcoin is Intuiti...

STEPHAN LIVERA
About this episode

Parker Lewis, Head of Business Development at Unchained Capital joins me in this episode to talk about a range of things:

  • How he went from global macro hedge fund to bitcoiner
  • What the Fed gets wrong
  • A Hayekian appreciation for bitcoin
  • His blog series, Gradually, Then Suddenly
  • Bitcoin becoming intuitive
  • Unchained Capital Caravan - open source & free multi sig

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