Simon Dixon: How Bank to the Future is Rethinking Finance

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• Episode: Simon Dixon: How Bank to the Future is Rethinking Finance
• Website: Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies
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• Duration: 01:03:02
• Published: 2015-08-24 19:49

Ever since the financial system collapsed in 2007, the call for alternatives has grown louder. Bitcoin itself can be seen as such an alternative. Simon Dixon’s search for a way to put capitalism on a sounder financial footing began before Bitcoin with a focus on equity crowdfunding. Since then he has built Bank to the Future into an innovative crowdfunding business that takes an aggressive contrarian stance. He has also launched an investment fund focused on cryptocurrencies together with Max Keiser called Bitcoin Capital.

He joined us for a fascinating discussion about the flaws of the banking system, Bitcoin and the search for alternatives.

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Topics covered in this episode:

• Why capitalism is built on a broken banking system
• The problems Bitcoin solves
• The flawed ways banks approach blockchain technology
• How Bank to the Future is a contrarian bet on the financial system
• Bitcoin Capital, the fund he started with Max Keiser
• How Bitcoin Capital and BnkToTheFuture work together

Episode links:

• Bitcoin Capital Tranche 2
• 'Bank to the Future' Book on Amazon
• Bitcoin Capital on the Keiser Report
• Simon Dixon TEDx Talk
• Money Creation in the Modern Economy
• Naked Capitalism

This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain and Sébastien Couture. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/093