{"id":1913,"date":"2017-03-12T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2017-03-12T01:00:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T01:00:46","slug":"episode-118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/episode-118\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode #118: Bitcoin or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Crypto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/5160637\/height\/90\/width\/640\/theme\/custom\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/autoplay\/no\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/no-cache\/true\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/ff8c00\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"one-half column\">Episode 118<\/div><div class=\"one-half column last\">March 12, 2017 \u2014 85 mins<\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div> <strong>Guests:\u00a0Greg Walker<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It came to me when I was sitting in the shower, and I couldn&#8217;t stop laughing about it. The juxtaposition of an educational website with an egregious grammatical error is immensely satisfying, and also acts as a reminder that seriousness doesn&#8217;t help you to learn anything. That is the explanation of our guest today, Greg Walker a.k.a. <strong>inersha<\/strong>, about why he started a <a href=\"http:\/\/learnmeabitcoin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bitcoin website<\/a>.\u00a0When he was 18, he started a poker strategy website. At the start of 2015 after losing interest in poker, he needed a reason to get out of bed in the morning, so he decided to start making a website about his biggest interest at the time. I don&#8217;t know what his\u00a0skills are exactly, but I think one of them is explaining how things work in a way that is easy to understand. 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Free beer and pizza, limited space: <a class=\"twitter-timeline-link\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/d8nZR6\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dH1hoYUvsS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-expanded-url=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/d8nZR6\"><span class=\"invisible\">https:\/\/<\/span><span class=\"js-display-url\">goo.gl\/d8nZR6<\/span><span class=\"tco-ellipsis\"><span class=\"invisible\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guests:\u00a0Greg Walker It came to me when I was sitting in the shower, and I couldn&#8217;t stop laughing about it. The juxtaposition of an educational website with an egregious grammatical error is immensely satisfying, and also acts as a reminder that seriousness doesn&#8217;t help you to learn anything. 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