Episode notes
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.
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