Welcome to episode five of The Bitcoin Game. I'm your host, Rob Mitchell. In this episode I present an uncut "fireside chat" between Bitcoin Foundation board member and longtime digital currency entrepreneur Brock Pierce, and Gem CEO/founder Micah Winkelspecht. Their conversation is followed by an audience Q&A (apologies for the sound quality of the audience questions).

This was a Los Angeles Bitcoin Meetup event held at the beautiful new Gem headquarters in Venice Beach, California, on November 13, 2014. Andreas Antonopoulos had been scheduled to speak that evening, but his flight from the East Coast was canceled, and as hard as he tried (including piloting a Cessna to a nearby airport), he was unable to make it. Fortunately, both Brock and Micah are amazing and knowledgeable Bitcoin speakers, so I believe everyone who attended felt extremely satisfied. There were too many topics covered to list, but below are relevant links from the discussion.

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Show links

Brock Pierce on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/brockpierce

Micah Winkelspecht on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/winkelspecht

Los Angeles Bitcoin Meetup Group http://LosAngelesBitcoin.org

Gem https://gem.co

Tether (formerly RealCoin) https://tether.to

Stephanie Murphy talks to Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne about the upcoming Medici Platform. Next listen to Patrick Byrnes' Keynote speech from October's Inside Bitcoins conference. Think you ownstock? Patrick explains the worrisome reason you do not. http://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/lets-talk-bitcoin-153-medici-and-the-pretense-of-law

Blockstream (sidechains white paper) http://www.blockstream.com

Tatiana Coin http://www.tatianacoin.com

Swarm http://swarm.fund

Coinbase https://www.coinbase.com

Sponsor

Bitcoin Keychains (two-sided) http://bkeychain.com

Music

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 in the band are Mike Coleman, Rick Marshal, and Michael Goldstein. Feel free to contact me if you want more info about any music you hear on the podcast.

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