The Indy500 Bitcoin Car with Jack Mallers & Ed Carpenter

 
 
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“Sometimes all it takes to change the world is just care enough. That’s how I think about the bitcoin community, we wear hoodies, we’re weird, we’re nerdy, we don’t have girlfriends, all of the memes. But, you know what you can’t say is that these guys don’t fucking care. We care a lot.”
— Jack Mallers

SHOW DESCRIPTION

Location: El Salvador
Date: Saturday May 8th
Company: Strike, Ed Carpenter Racing
Role: CEO, Owner

Ed Carpenter lives life at over 373 km/h. He’s worked his whole life for his dream of racing in the Indy 500. And now, with 18 Indy races under his belt, the finish line is within his sights. But Indy racing requires millions per year in funding, and the way people consume entertainment is changing.

Ed’s team needed to do something different, and a dose of orange pills gave them an idea. A cold email to Jack Mallers may just have changed the game forever. The two have joined forces and are looking to the Bitcoin community to raise money to enter car number 21 into the Indy500 covered in the Bitcoin logo. 

In this interview, I talk to Jack Mallers and IndyCar driver Ed Carpenter. We discuss Ed’s racing aspirations, entering a Bitcoin car into the Indy500 and supporting open source development and Bitcoin.

TIMESTAMPS

00:02:16: Introductions
00:02:27: Ed's journey to Indy 500
00:04:49: Indy 500 vs Formula 1
00:06:26: When Ed met Jack
00:12:12: The deal gets struck
00:15:06: The challenges of running a race team
00:17:41: Car number 21
00:19:11: The finer details of the project
00:27:39: Progress update from Jack
00:29:19: Taking Bitcoin mainstream
00:34:41: Bitcoin for humanity
00:37:05: Open-source developers
00:38:43: The Bitcoin car timetable
00:41:22: The odds of success
00:46:28: Final comments


 

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SHOW NOTES

Donate to the cause:

  • Lightning or on-chain: strike.me/racing

  • Bitcoin on-chain: 3GCLkEZrhQ7AdPA7t3SvhoBixQWs1he6SQ

  • Email racing@strike.me if you’d like to make a larger contribution

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