video: https://youtu.be/VqmAEB2xz04

Ed Moy, who was the 38th Director of the United States Mint, and one of the highest ranking government officials to have spoken out favorably about Bitcoin in its earliest days, at a time when NO ONE in government was talking about it.

I chat with him about huge increase in the demand for gold that he saw during the Great Recession when he was in charge of the mint, why gold has perceived value rather than intrinsic value, the need for bitcoin and a money not controlled by government, and what regulation might look like in bitcoin’s future, according to his insider perspective.