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Podcast: The Peter McCormack Show
Episode: Nassim Taleb's Bitcoin Black Paper with Lyn Alden - WBD378
Description: Location: Remotely Date: Tuesday 27th July Project: lynalden.com Role: Macroeconomist Nassim Taleb is a well-regarded author and statistician and one-time bitcoin bull who has since turned critic, claiming that it "can be neither a long or short term store of value" and that "its expected value is no higher than 0." Taleb recently wrote a black paper criticising bitcoin's ability to function as a store of value, questioning its ability to protect against oppressive governments and claiming bitcoins distribution is unfair. Several key points in the paper were without merit, a...