{"id":944,"date":"2018-08-06T20:50:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T20:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=944"},"modified":"2018-08-06T20:50:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T20:50:46","slug":"brock-pierce-the-hippie-king-of-cryptocurrency-rolling-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=944","title":{"rendered":"Brock Pierce: The Hippie King of Cryptocurrency \u2013 Rolling Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Pierce, meanwhile, was about to try to repeat his success in e-sports when people began mentioning cryptocurrency to him roughly a year after the first Bitcoins were mined. Pierce was shocked that he\u2019d never heard of it. \u201cThere were no storytellers who knew how to convey the information in simple insights, so it required a lot of real heavy lifting to figure out,\u201d he says. \u201cI didn\u2019t have the time to appreciate the power of decentralization at first. The day I got it, I knew that was it.\u201dBannon recently took a leap into cryptocurrency as well, not just because of its financial implications, but because of its political ones. \u201cThis whole populist revolt is going to come down to this concept of currency,\u201d he says. \u201cYou can see the forces that are aligned to take advantage of it. Every smart person that I admire in the world, and those I semi-fear, is focused on this concept of crypto for a reason. They understand that this is the driving force of the fourth industrial revolution: steam engine, electricity, then the microchip \u2013 blockchain and crypto is the fourth. There\u2019s going to be a war for control for this.\u201dOnce Pierce caught on to the potential of this new digital cash, he became an evangelist, giving away Bitcoins to everyone he could, whether to an influencer or to the audience at one of his talks. He eventually stopped giving the money away because \u201cno one appreciated it, then they lost it, and it was a waste of my fucking time. I get messages all the time from people saying, \u2018I think of how much I lost because I didn\u2019t take it seriously.\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Pierce, meanwhile, was about to try to repeat his success in e-sports when people began mentioning cryptocurrency to him roughly a year after the first Bitcoins were mined. Pierce was shocked that he\u2019d never heard of it. \u201cThere were no storytellers who knew how to convey the information in simple insights, so it required a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,39,46,24,31,47,21,44,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}