Episode Details

Douglas Jackson, the founder of E-gold, arguably the first widely-used electronic medium of exchange, appears on the show. In this episode we discuss: 

- Douglas' motivations for starting E-gold
- His disagreements with his cypherpunk contemporaries
- Why private monetary issuers might be more responsible than public ones
- The challenge of creating an open payments system which is also compliant
- His critiques of stablecoins and native-unit cryptocurrencies