Episode 183: Interview with Andreas M. Antonopoulos

Episode 183: Interview with Andreas M. Antonopoulos

Andreas is considered by many to be the Brand Ambassador for Bitcoin, the epitome of a Bitcoin Evangelist, listen to this interview and find out why.

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In our latest edition, Nako Mbelle interviews to whom we refer to as the brand ambassador or Bitcoin evangelist: Andreas M. Antonopoulos. We are very thankful for Andreas to give us time and speak about Bitcoin and the Blockchain, topics on which he is extremely passionate about.

Andreas covers a lot of ground in this interview: we speak about bitcoin's role in the rise of the sovereign individual; the upcoming halving and its effect on the market; the state of the Lightning network; bitcoin's circular economy, on-chain transaction volume; crypto exchange fungibility challenges and much more.

Andreas M. Antonopoulos' Bio

Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a critically-acclaimed best-selling author, speaker, educator, and one of the world’s foremost bitcoin and open blockchain experts. Andreas makes complex subjects accessible and easy to understand. He is known for delivering electric talks that combine economics, psychology, technology, and game theory with current events, personal anecdote, and historical precedent—effortlessly transliterating the complex issues of blockchain technology out of the abstract and into the real world.

In 2014, Antonopoulos authored the groundbreaking book Mastering Bitcoin (O’Reilly Media, 2014), widely considered to be the best technical guide ever written about the technology. His second book, The Internet of Money (Merkle Bloom LLC, 2016)—which explains the technology’s potential impacts on human civilization—is a bestseller on Amazon. The much-anticipated second volume of The Internet of Money was released in the late fall of 2017 and sold thousands of copies in the first month alone. His fourth book, Mastering Ethereum (O’Reilly Media, 2018), was published in late 2018.

Antonopoulos is: an expert who has been interviewed on the BBC, Bloomberg Business, CNN, The Economist, Forbes, and Motherboard/VICE;  a widely published author of articles and blog posts on bitcoin; a permanent host on the popular Let’s Talk Bitcoin Podcast; a frequent speaker at technology and security conferences worldwide.

Andreas M. Antonopoulos was born in London, England, and raised in Athens, Greece. After earning degrees in Computer Science, Data Communications and Distributed Systems at University College London, he went on to co-found and manage a technology research company in New York City. In this capacity, Antonopoulos advised dozens of Fortune 500 company executives on networking, security, data centers, and cloud computing—more than 200 of his articles on security, cloud computing, and data centers have been published in print and syndicated worldwide.

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Host: Nako Mbelle

Guest: Andreas M. Antonopoulos

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