Cover of The Age of Cryptocurrency

Book · 2015 · Business & Economics

The Age of Cryptocurrency

How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order

by Paul Vigna, Michael J. Casey · Recommended by 3 people on 1 podcast

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In some respects it's a book for policy wonks, you know, it's not really, it's certainly not a how-to book how to go and get your Bitcoin and buy this.
Michael Casey · a16z Podcast · Jan 2019 Listen at 12:09

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  • Discussing book concepts and trust“concepts of trust and currency”
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We talked to a lot of people that we interviewed for the book went through it too and I realized that it's almost kind of like the Kubler-Ross model the five stages of grief so we wrote about it in the beginning of the book.
Paul Vigna a16z Podcast · Jan 2019
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One of the things you guys talk about in your book is about that you actually had to start back to just concepts of trust and currency itself.
Michael Copeland a16z Podcast · Jan 2019
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Once you gotta have we had to in the book get people to that point first and then talk them through what Bitcoin is.
Michael Casey a16z Podcast · Jan 2019
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We've gone back and forth about the title what we're not just a table rows for the subtitle of the book and we end up with a pretty big broad claim that is being part of the process of selling a book.
Michael Casey a16z Podcast · Jan 2019

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Michael Casey so once you gotta have we had to in the book get people to that point first and then talk them through what… 4
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“so once you gotta have we had to in the book get people to that point first and then talk them through what bitcoin is”
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“you can we can write a book people who are building Bitcoin companies can go out and talk it up and do everything”
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“well you know we've gone back and forth about the title what we're not just a table rows for the subtitle of the book and we end up with a pretty big broad claim that is being part of the process of selling a book”
Discussed
“and and that I think is so in some respects it's a book for policy wonks you know it's not really it's certainly not a how-to book how to go and get your Bitcoin and buy this”
Michael Copeland so one of the things you guys talk about in your book is about that you actually had to start back to just… 2
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“so one of the things you guys talk about in your book is about that you actually had to start back to just concepts of trust and currency itself”
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“like if you could give us your thoughts on that because we talk a lot about the unbanked and bitcoins role in that but also just like who's reading your book I mean you you were surprised you said by some of the people writing to you”
Paul Vigna and we talked to a lot of people that we interviewed for the book went through it too and I realized that i… 1
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“and we talked to a lot of people that we interviewed for the book went through it too and I realized that it's almost kind of like the kubler-ross model the five stages of grief so we wrote about it in the beginning of the book”
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“I'm Michael Copeland and we are lucky enough to have today with us Michael Casey and Paul Vania authors of the recently released the age of cryptocurrency”
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“well Michael Casey paulínia thank you guys so much thank you guys the age of cryptocurrency and you guys are gonna be still writing about it before the next book comes out so we'll keep an eye out”