Arrested for Selling Bitcoin with Morgan Rockwell

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In this podcast, I chat with Bitcoin Inc CEO, Morgan Rockwell who the Department of Homeland Security arrested for selling Bitcoin. In this interview, we discuss the case as well as the role of AI and the future of Bitcoin.

Breakdown of the show

00:03:27: Introductions
00:04:10: Why Bitcoin is so important
00:05:12: How Morgan discovered Bitcoin
00:09:10: The Terminator scenario
00:10:29: Google AI drones
00:12:12: Moral warfare
00:16:05: The advancement of AI and the morality question
00:19:26: The physics dictating the future of technology
00:23:37: Bitcoin for the future generation
00:26:03: How AI sees the world
00:30:21: Threats to Bitcoin
00:32:43: Mining in China and SHA256
00:35:40: The legal issue and Morgan's arrest
00:39:41: Homeland Security explained
00:47:19: State and federal jurisdiction
00:54:21: Legal precedents in Bitcoin
00:59:30: Potential penalties
01:03:15: How the trial has affected Morgan's life
01:04:37: Leadership in crypto
01:10:11: Morgan's current projects
01:14:24: Final comments

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SHOW NOTES

• Connect with Morgan:

  • On Twitter @NODEfather

  • On Medium

  • On AngelList

  • On LinkedIn

  • Morgan's band on Twitter @metaballo
     

• Bitcoin Inc:

  • Website: http://bitcoininc.co/

  • LinkedIn
     

• Discussed topics:

  • Terminator scenario (Skynet)

  • Google Deep Mind

  • Google military drones

  • C.A.D.I.E Google AI

  • Elon Musk on AI

  • Special Drawing Right (SDR) - Global Currency

  • Gravity Waves

  • Nikola Tesla

  • Nikola Tesla Smartphone

  • Scalar Waves

  • Gresham's Law

  • Elon Musk - put AI in our brain

  • 51% attack on the Bitcoin Network

  • National Institute of Standards

  • Omni

  • Counterparty

  • Lightning Network
     

• The legal case

  • Bitcoiner Faces Charges After Selling BTC to an Undercover Cop

  • Bitcoin trader charged with money laundering in unusual case testing digital currency

  • Tony Vays interview with Morgan discussing the arrest
     

• Other cases:

  • Charlie Shrem legal cas

  • Mt. Gox

  • Silk Road
     

• Film references:

  • Lucy

  • Limitless

  • Terminator

  • Chappie

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

  • Tomorrowland

  • Mad Max

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THANKS

• Jason Camiolo for audio production, his website is at http://www.jasoncamiolo.com/

• James Parkin for helping me with admin and trading

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