Key facts:
Bitcoin represents work and prosperity, fitting in with the American dream.
The history of Bitcoin is full of mysteries and strange situations.
Journalist Pete Rizzo has built a reputation as a Bitcoin historian by investigating topics that few know about, with one of his most famous articles dealing with the final days of Satoshi.
Although time was pressing, CriptoNoticias managed to interview Pete Rizzo from the Bitcoin Conference 2022, in Miami, where he told us a little about his current work and some other topics that he is interested in investigating around the scattered mysteries in the history of Bitcoin.
During the conference he also presented a book that he co-authored with other writers: Bitcoin and the American Dream. This book, as he explained to us, seeks to demonstrate how Bitcoin fits into the ethic of entrepreneurship and the desire for self-improvement and prosperity present in American culture.
We believe that Bitcoin fits the American dream. The American dream has always been about prosperity. You come here and you can live freely, you can undertake, and I think that where Bitcoin fits into this is that it’s about restoring your ability to control your wealth, because you currently have no other option than the government and Bitcoin gives you an alternative […].
Pete Rizzo, journalist.
On the other hand, he told us his favorite story about Bitcoin, about a miner named friedcat, who was allegedly one of the first Bitcoin miners in China, at the level of other large entrepreneurs in this sector. Rizzo tells that this miner disappeared and it is presumed that he may have been killed by a criminal group.
Surely we will be hearing this and other stories very soon from this journalist, who is also one of the founders of the Association of Cryptocurrency Journalists and Researchers, a trade organization that brings together the best professionals in the area, including some members of CriptoNoticias .
To listen to the full interview, you can access the video on our Youtube channel.