What Bitcoin Did with Peter McCormack

The Indy500 Bitcoin Car with Jack Mallers & Ed Carpenter

05.12.2021 - By Peter McCormackPlay

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“Sometimes all it takes to change the world is just care enough. That’s how I think about the bitcoin community, we wear hoodies, we’re weird, we’re nerdy, we don’t have girlfriends, all of the memes. But, you know what you can’t say is that these guys don’t fucking care. We care a lot.”

— Jack MallersLocation: El Salvador

Date: Saturday May 8th

Company: Strike, Ed Carpenter Racing

Role: CEO, OwnerEd Carpenter lives life at over 373 km/h. He’s worked his whole life for his dream of racing in the Indy 500. And now, with 18 Indy races under his belt, the finish line is within his sights. But Indy racing requires millions per year in funding, and the way people consume entertainment is changing.Ed’s team needed to do something different, and a dose of orange pills gave them an idea. A cold email to Jack Mallers may just have changed the game forever. The two have joined forces and are looking to the Bitcoin community to raise money to enter car number 21 into the Indy500 covered in the Bitcoin logo. In this interview, I talk to Jack Mallers and IndyCar driver Ed Carpenter. We discuss Ed’s racing aspirations, entering a Bitcoin car into the Indy500 and supporting open source development and Bitcoin.This episode’s sponsors:

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