Nic Cary reckons there is still up to £2m of Bitcoin buried in geocaches across Yorkshire. He hid it himself, more than thirteen years ago.
He first heard about Bitcoin in 2011, on a small fishing boat on the Long Island Sound. A few years later he moved from the United States to York with a backpack and helped build the first block explorer for Bitcoin out of a two-bedroom flat near the racecourse.
That project became Blockchain.com. It now has offices in six countries, an FCA registration, a MiCA licence covering Europe, and a confidential SEC filing ahead of a US listing.
In this episode:
• The fishing trip that started it
• Why the company was built in York rather than London
• The paper wallets hidden across Yorkshire, and what they were worth
• From block explorer to wallet, and the case for holding your own keys
• Polymarket, Snap Markets and tokenised stocks
• How to explain Bitcoin without arguing with people
• Why machines, not people, may make most payments within ten years
• The three things he thinks everyone should read
Timestamps:
00:00 Coming Up
00:40 Intro
01:13 Hearing about Bitcoin on a fishing boat in 2011
06:12 Websites, clams and Pipeline CRM
08:42 Why blockchain.com started in York
12:46 Bitcoin hidden in geocaches across Yorkshire
14:57 What it was worth at the time
15:43 From block explorer to building a wallet
18:03 Self-custody versus handing your money over
20:26 Polymarket, Snap Markets and tokenised stocks
22:20 How Nic's approach to explaining Bitcoin changed
25:06 Store of value, stablecoins and peer-to-peer cash
27:14 Why machines will transact in digital money
29:33 FCA approval, MiCA and the SEC filing
32:12 Three things everyone should read
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