Yan Pritzker is the CTO and
cofounder of Swan Bitcoin, an automated bitcoin only investing app
aiming to be the best onramp to bitcoin. He is also the author of
Inventing Bitcoin.
On this episode, he and NLW
discuss:
How
immigrating from the Soviet Union taught Yan about capital
controls
Buying bitcoin at $30 in 2011
Why
the type of capital available shapes what type of startups
entrepreneurs found
Why
venture capitals focused investments away from
bitcoin
The
emergence of a bitcoin only startup scene
Starting a startup during the COVID-19
crisis
Why
bitcoin’s scarcity is its most important property
A daily analysis of macroeconomics, bitcoin, geopolitics and big picture power shifts, hosted by Nathaniel Whittemore @nlw. The Breakdown is part of The Breakdown Network.