Noteworthy - Making bitcoin notes so the newbie can own bitcoin
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Kevin Monahan is the CEO of a company called Noteworthy. Noteworthy makes physical bitcoin bills in paper. The bills have the private keys on them. This might seem contradictory to the notion of digital currency, but we will discover that, in fact, it is not and some properties might actually improve in the paper version. Furthermore, Kevin worked at MyEtherWallet. The importance of this is that he has quite a bit of experience educating people in crypto. Please take a few minutes to answer these short questions. Time stamps 01:03 Noteworthy, what it is and how it works 06:58 People understand bills better than they understand private keys 08:57 How notes improve anonymity 10:26 Why it is secure and key management 17:20 How notes are created 22:30 Reducing barriers to entry of crypto and potential size of the market 25:25 What he learned from the Dao hack and the ICO boom 32:35 The team, very security focused and the need for hard money 44:07 Kevin's background 50:14 Why in Switzerland 51:38 Ethereum merge and the history of forks 1:04:52 Rapid fire questions Links [email protected] https://noteworthy.ag/ affiliate links Descript https://www.descript.com/?lmref=m0U0LA shift crypto affiliate link https://shiftcrypto.ch/bitbox02/?ref=W7XHHFMKYt braintrust https://app.usebraintrust.com/r/didier3/ If you enjoyed this episode, share this link on your favorite social networks Visit the website and support the podcast with BTC or fiat https://www.theswissroadtocrypto.com/ This podcast is produced by Didier Borel. Copyright © *2020* *The Swiss Road to Crypto*, All rights reserved.
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