About this episode
This week's guest is Samson Mow. We discuss: - His origin story - El Salvador's Adoption of Bitcoin - President Bukele - Volcano Bonds - Nation State Adoption - Threats to Bitcoin Samson Mow recently left his post as CSO at Blockstream in order to focus full time on nation state Bitcoin adoption. He spent five years with Adam Back at Blockstream, a leading provider of blockchain technologies, on the forefront of work in cryptography and distributed systems. Samson also founded Pixelmatic in 2011 to create engaging games that are truly social and encourage new connections to be made. Sponsors and Referral links: Coin Stories is brought to you in part by The Bitcoin Conference and Okcoin. BITCOIN 2022 will be the BIGGEST BITCOIN EVENT IN HISTORY held in Miami on April 6-9, 2022. For 10% Off your Bitcoin Conference Ticket head to https://b.tc/conference and use code COINSTORIES *** Okcoin is on a mission to make crypto investing and trading easily accessible to anyone around the world. We are building the next generation of tools to help onboard the investors and traders who have been on the fence about crypto. Okcoin a globally licensed exchange with offices in San Francisco, Miami, Malta, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. We are a collective of global citizens with a common passion to help decentralize finance and level the economic playing field for everyone around the world. Visit https://go.okcoin.com/natalie for $10 in Bitcoin when you sign up. *** With iTrustCapital, you can actually invest in crypto without worrying about taxes, or fees. iTrustCapital allows their clients to invest in crypto through an individual retirement account, or an IRA. IRAs are tax sheltered accounts, which means all your crypto trading is tax-free and can even grow tax-free over time. The process of signing up with iTrustCapital is really easy, and the service is awesome. The platform has a dedicated client experience team, and you can tell that they really care about helping. The best part is that it's totally free to open an account, and there are no hidden fees.You don't need to pay any monthly subscription or membership fees either. An important thing to consider in the crypto space is security. iTrustCapital happens to be best-in-class for security, as they have partnered with Coinbase Custody keep all their crypto assets in institutional storage. If you open and fund an account, you will get a $100 funding bonus added to your account. To learn more, click the link below and open a free account to learn more. https://itrust.capital/nataliebrunell