As Minister of Finance, he voted against the 2015 bank bailouts in Greece, and resigned when they passed. He's worked at Valve (makers of Half-Life and Steam) as economist-in-residence. He's taught at Cambridge and written popular game theory and economics books.

Yanis Varoufakis is controversial and hard to categorize, but he has a lot of incisive things to say. He even mentions Bitcoin in his latest book, "Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism."

This week I sum up Varoufakis's book, including the fascinating intro on how it was starvation that pushed European and Asian societies to advance so quickly.

I also talk about what Varoufakis says about Bitcoin – and tokenization, which he unintentionally brings up in his final chapter.

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Music this week: Chopin nocturnes, performed by me. Theme song by Joseph Dickinson (audiojungle.net/user/jdmusic).

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