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Notes from PlanB podcast

Brett
5 min readJul 30, 2019

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These are the high-level notes that I took from the PlanB podcast with Stephan Livera. FASCINATING podcast and a must-listen event. PlanB Stephan Livera — please let me know if I missed something or mis-stated something

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Opening Comments

Professional finance background
​He watched ​BTC ​go from $100 to $1000 but waited until 2015 to make first investment
2019 — feels like 2015 — very positive environment

Influencers? Nick Szabo, Adam Back, Satoshi

“it’s all about digital money” — better money = better trade = better allocation — bitcoin will bring the next renaissance

Favorite Satoshi Quote — “As a thought experiment, imagine there was a base metal as scarce as gold but with the following properties: — boring grey in colour — not a good conductor of electricity — not particularly strong, but not ductile or easily malleable either — not useful for any practical or ornamental purpose and one special, magical property: — can be transported over a communications channel If it somehow acquired any value at all for whatever reason, then anyone wanting to transfer wealth over a long distance could buy…

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Brett
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Salesforce, NetApp, Cisco, McAfee, Disney & Intuit.

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