{"id":593,"date":"2016-01-03T10:45:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T10:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/?p=593"},"modified":"2016-01-04T14:52:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T14:52:40","slug":"episode-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/episode-33\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode #33: Canadian Bitcoin Scenario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/4051263\/height\/100\/width\/640\/theme\/custom\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/no-cache\/true\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/fe9700\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"100\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"one-half column\">Episode 33<\/div><div class=\"one-half column last\">January 03, 2016 \u2014 70\u00a0mins<\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div> <strong>Guests: <a href=\"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/artist\/chris-horlacher\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Horlacher<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Canadians are overly optimistic when it comes to bitcoin. One look at the Canadian bitcoin scenario and anyone can predict that it has the potential to become the world\u2019s bitcoin hub. Starting with the Canadian senate\u2019s decision to go easy on the cryptocurrency to the number of bitcoin companies,\u00a0we see it happening right before our eyes. This week on the show we discuss this and put the spotlight on <a href=\"http:\/\/equibit.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Equibit<\/a>, which bills itself as a global P2P OTC (over-the-counter) platform; a block-chain-based securities register that manages OTC equity, warrants and more. The CEO himself, Chris Horlacher, who is an expert in business strategy, transformation and process improvement, joins us in the studio all way the from Toronto and is all set to revolutionize the way securities are dealt with. By democratizing the OTC securities industry, Equibit gives back more control to issuers, brokers and investors. They represents a totally new model that automates tasks investors are currently paying billions each year to have performed. Saving BILLIONS! Holy shit. Press play!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guests: Chris Horlacher Canadians are overly optimistic when it comes to bitcoin. One look at the Canadian bitcoin scenario and anyone can predict that it has the potential to become the world\u2019s bitcoin hub. Starting with the Canadian senate\u2019s decision to go easy on the cryptocurrency to the number of bitcoin companies,\u00a0we see it happening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","unlock_protocol_post_locks":"","publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}