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Parker Lewis is the author of "Gradually, Then Suddenly" and Head of Business Development at Zaprite, working on Bitcoin payments after four years building collaborative custody at Unchained.

This conversation on X Spaces yesterday with Parker, Max Keiser, Stacy Herbert, and moderator Jethro Toro covered...

• Parker’s path from Wall Street to Bitcoin: Deutsche Bank during the 2008 financial crisis, then Hayman Capital, where studying how the Fed would unwind quantitative easing led him down the Bitcoin rabbit hole in 2016
• The story behind Gradually, Then Suddenly: an introduction to Saifedean Ammous, an early manuscript of The Bitcoin Standard, and reasoning through the most common questions about Bitcoin
• Why self-custody is still so important: the Silicon Valley Bank failure, the fragility of the banking system, and multisig collaborative custody
• Bitcoin as a Medium of Exchange: why payments are what let Bitcoin stand apart from the fiat rails, and Parker’s work at Zaprite
• Texas and El Salvador: “Bitcoin Country” and the “center of hash” and why freedom-minded people move to Bitcoin-friendly jurisdictions
• Bitcoin Histórico: a unique OG Bitcoin conference experience, where people can learn from the best speakers who have been in Bitcoin since the early days, at El Salvador’s National Palace, including Parker’s talk “Bitcoin Is Not a Panacea”

Join us for the full Freedom Month experience this November:

📍 10th · Bitcoin Capital Summit

📍 11 & 12 · BitcoinHistorico.com

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📍 13th · Renaissance Rodeo

📍 18 & 19 · EmTech AI Conference

📍 19 & 20 · Global Bitcoin Circular Economies Summit

You can check out the original Space here: https://x.com/i/spaces/1nxnRBkpNQjxO?s=20

Relevant accounts on X:

https://x.com/btchistoricosv

https://x.com/parkeralewis

https://x.com/maxkeiser

https://x.com/stacyherbert

https://x.com/JethroToro

https://x.com/BitcoinOfficeSV