Max Keiser and I found bitcoin because when we first started making financial news content, it was for Aljazeera English’s launch week.
As we were about to begin filming, a leaked memo revealed that the US & UK planned on bombing the network. +
As we were about to begin filming, a leaked memo revealed that the US & UK planned on bombing the network. +
Here is an article about that memo: aljazeera.com/news/2005/11/2…
Needless to say, all the guests we had booked for our program backed out.
Except for @FGMR
From there we found other gold bugs and Austrian economists were the ONLY guests willing to appear on the network
Except for @FGMR
From there we found other gold bugs and Austrian economists were the ONLY guests willing to appear on the network
This gave us a huge audience with the gold crowd which brought us to very early bitcoin
We didn’t see our family for the next five years for fear of flying back to America as I feared being thrown into Guantanamo
We didn’t see our family for the next five years for fear of flying back to America as I feared being thrown into Guantanamo
Now Aljazeera is beloved by US cable news sorts but back then they were rabidly against the network for daring to remain unembedded as US journalists were in Iraq and Afghanistan.
An MI5 agent named Robin (of course) told us at the Pizza Express next door to Aljazeera’s London HQ at Hyde Park that we were working for the enemy.
So it was kind of stressful to tell you the truth. And I felt in a lot of danger.
So it was kind of stressful to tell you the truth. And I felt in a lot of danger.
Anyway, it was worth the fear in that we found bitcoin in 2011 indirectly because of this
And I tell this story only because most people think because of our personalities and presenting style that it has been all easy. Not necessarily.
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