We had to do it. After 12 years and 3,000,000x appreciation, we kick off Season 8 with the best investment of all-time and our biggest episode ever: Bitcoin. From the first bitcoin transaction of 10k for two Papa John&#8217;s pizzas (worth about $350m today!!) to $40k+ BTC and maybe the moon beyond, we cover the whole crazy, improbable journey of how a single 8-page PDF document changed the world of money — and perhaps the world itself — forever. 
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Links:
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<li>Satoshi&#8217;s Whitepaper: <a href="https://www.bitcoin.com/bitcoin.pdf">https://www.bitcoin.com/bitcoin.pdf</a></li>
<li>Matt Huang&#8217;s &#8220;Bitcoin for the Open-Minded Skeptic&#8221;: <a href="https://www.paradigm.xyz/Bitcoin_For_The_Open_Minded_Skeptic.pdf">https://www.paradigm.xyz/Bitcoin_For_The_Open_Minded_Skeptic.pdf</a></li>
<li>Nellie Bowles&#8217;s &#8220;Everyone Is Getting Hilariously Rich and You’re Not&#8221;: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/style/bitcoin-millionaires.html"> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/style/bitcoin-millionaires.html</a></li>
<li>Square’s $50m investment in BTC: <a href="https://images.ctfassets.net/2d5q1td6cyxq/5sXNrlEh2mEnTvvhgtYOm2/737bcfdc15e2a1c3cbd9b9451710ce54/Square_Inc._Bitcoin_Investment_Whitepaper.pdf"> https://images.ctfassets.net/2d5q1td6cyxq/5sXNrlEh2mEnTvvhgtYOm2/737bcfdc15e2a1c3cbd9b9451710ce54/Square_Inc._Bitcoin_Investment_Whitepaper.pdf</a></li>
</ul>
Episode Sources: 
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<li>Full list of episode sources available here: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/16QCDNm2qzG3Bn5h1j1KXisxL_JGT7egDx7czX9ThHLY/edit?usp=sharing"> https://docs.google.com/document/d/16QCDNm2qzG3Bn5h1j1KXisxL_JGT7egDx7czX9ThHLY/edit?usp=sharing</a> </li>
</ul>

Ben Gilbert

David Rosenthal

Bitcoin

We had to do it. After 12 years and 3,000,000x appreciation, we kick off Season 8 with the best investment of all-time and our biggest episode ever: Bitcoin. From the first bitcoin transaction of 10k for two Papa John&#8217;s pizzas (worth about $350m today!!) to $40k+ BTC and maybe the moon beyond, we cover the [&hellip;]

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