Hello, welcome to episode 20 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. On April 18th, 2015, Los Angeles Bitcoiners were treated to our city’s first Bitcoin conference, called The State Of Digital Money 2015 (or SODM15). I recorded a lot of great content at this conference, and in today’s episode, I bring you the first of these recordings. Presentation: The Transformation of Global Commerce

by Steve Beauregard, CEO & Founder at GoCoin @GoCoinCEO | @GoCoin https://www.gocoin.com Panel: Merchant & Mass Adoption of Digital Currency Moderated by Steve Beauregard with Justin Newton, CEO of Netki @NetkiCorp https://www.netki.com Paul Puey, CEO and Co-Founder of Airbitz @paullinator | @Airbitz https://airbitz.co Nick Sullivan, Founder and CEO of ChangeTip @gorillamania | @ChangeTip https://www.changetip.com Andrew Lee, CEO of Purse @2drewlee | @PurseIO https://purse.io Connie Chung, Senior Payments Product Manager at Expedia @Expedia http://www.expedia.com Below are YouTube videos of both the presentation and the panel. The videographer who recorded these videos works relentlessly on the front lines, recording cryptocurrency and P2P content from all over the country. Check out all his videos at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxfh-2aOR5hZUjxJLQ2CIHw/feed?activity_view=3.

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State Of Digital Money http://www.cureativ.com/sodm/#digitalmoney 500 Startups http://500.co Plug And Play Tech Center http://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com Bitcoin Syndicates https://angel.co/bitcoin/syndicates Amazon Mechanical Turk https://www.mturk.com UnoCoin https://www.unocoin.com Zero To One by Peter Thiel http://zerotoonebook.com Primer on the Greek financial crisis http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/anil.kashyap/research/papers/A-Primer-on-the-Greek-Crisis_june29.pdf

SPONSOR

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MUSIC

All music in this episode was created by me, or with friends and family. Ganesh Painting Company is the name of one of the jam bands I feature live recordings of regularly. Some of the musicians you're hearing are Mike Coleman and Steve Lunn. Feel free to contact me if you want more info about any music you hear on the podcast. Thanks for listening!

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