This is a great episode, wonderful to hear the history of digital money
S03E03 Aaron van Wirdum – Bitcoin's Origin Story and the Unfinished Fight
By Shawn Yeager
Aired Feb 6, 2026 · 1h 4m · Last boosted Apr 7, 2026
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“The cypherpunks who tried to build digital cash before Bitcoin might one day be remembered like America's founding fathers.” Aaron van Wirdum spent five years writing The Genesis Book—and warns the fight for money outside of government control isn't over. EPISODE SUMMARY Bitcoin didn't appear from nowhere. For decades before Satoshi, a scrappy band of cryptographers, privacy activists, and heterodox economists tried to build digital cash that could operate outside government control. They all failed—until one anonymous inventor synthesized their ideas into a system that actually worked. Aaron van Wirdum, author of The Genesis...
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Hell yeah @npub1art8cs66f… for putting yourself primarily on Nostr Great episode
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Vantastic rip
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history is important
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