
@softsimon_ - Creating @mempool. #301
Once Bitten! A Bitcoin Podcast.
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How Did Bitcoin Come to Be?
The founder of mempool talks about how he came to be involved in the Bitcoin movement. He says his family is from a traditional working-class Swedish background. In high school, he became interested in alternative economics and started following Pity Shift's lectures on YouTube. After listening to Peter Schiff who called Bitcoin 'crap', he decided to look into it more.
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