Bitcoin billionaires. I know. He got really sick this morning and just absolutely couldnt make it so we will talk a little bit about his book just for those of you who are wondering. [applause] we are going to leadtime at the end for audience q a as well so please be thinking about your questions for mike. We would love to have an interactive conversation with you. Let me just start, actually im going to start by saying a couple of words about bens book before we dive into mike in his book. For any of you that havent checked it out yet its called bitcoin billionaires and its the story of the winkle lost twins. [applause] you may remember them from the facebook story. They were the two brothers at harvard who actually hired Mark Zuckerberg to help them build out their social Network Platform at harvard. Mark was a Software Developer and coder and engineer who helped them build their platform but then he actually ended up spending away from them and creating his own platform so they made
Good evening, im bradley graham, coowner of politics and prose along with my wife Lisa Muscatine and on behalf of everybody at p and p welcome 2 pm to p. M. At the wharf, thank you for coming and for bringing this evening of storm warnings and wind and rain. Evenings are getting to be all too frequent here in washington dc. Last august john chapman, air force combat controller was posthumously awarded the medal of honor or his heroic actions atop a snowcapped mountain in afghanistan in early 2002. Afew months after us forces began fighting in the country. Chapman was the first airman to receive the medal of honor is the vietnam war. He then attached to a Navy Seal Team assigned to establish a mountaintop observation post in connection with a major us to against al qaeda and Taliban Forces in the shower valley in eastern afghanistan. Approaching the site, the helicopter carrying the special Operations Unit came under heavy fire and one of the team members was thrown from the aircraft. R
[applause] good evening, im delighted to be in houston, always delighted to be in houston and its almost always a good space so i want to take you back to sunday afternoon, july 20 1969. It was about 2 15 central time. Neil armstrong and buzz aldrin were in their spaceship, they were in the lunar module. They were getting ready to fly lunar orbit, from an orbiter on the moon to Tranquility Base. And that last leg of the 240,000 mile journey takes just 13 minutes from the thousand feet to the surface of the moon. The first three minutes of the 13 minute went perfectly normally. The last 10 minutes were a cascade of problems and you might not have even noticed problems if you were listening live because thats the way after not adMission Control work. The first problem was that as armstrong and aldrin down to the moon they were looking out the window. Armstrong discovered the place they were intending to land was strewn with boulders between 10 and 20 feet. They were boulders as big as ho
Theyve covered a lot on fox. Yeah, right. Okay. I think there is actually been a lot of scrutiny in recent years, but i say i love cnn and i appreciate the comments. Cnn, cnn is a global newsgathering muscle. Fox is an entertainment muscle. And the more the people see the difference, the better off will all be. Okay, thats it for today. A special thank to brian stelter, Franklin Foer and baron. Thank you for beingbarbara mcqu. Right. Barb. You can leave now while i work here. Is done. It all gets gets downhill after this. Barb is a professor from practice, the university of michigan law school. Shes a big michigan sports fan. So im, sure, shes aware that the last time arizona played michigan in mens basketball, arizona won by 18 points. Shes also a legal analyst for nbc news and msnbc and a cohost of the podcast sisters in law. For seven years, barb served u. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of michigan, appointed by barack obama. And she was the first woman to serve in that positi
Theyve covered a lot on fox. Yeah, right. Okay. I think there is actually been a lot of scrutiny in recent years, but i say i love cnn and i appreciate the comments. Cnn, cnn is a global newsgathering muscle. Fox is an entertainment muscle. And the more the people see the difference, the better off will all be. Okay, thats it for today. A special thank to brian stelter, Franklin Foer and baron. Thank you for beingbarbara mcqu. Right. Barb. You can leave now while i work here. Is done. It all gets gets downhill after this. Barb is a professor from practice, the university of michigan law school. Shes a big michigan sports fan. So im, sure, shes aware that the last time arizona played michigan in mens basketball, arizona won by 18 points. Shes also a legal analyst for nbc news and msnbc and a cohost of the podcast sisters in law. For seven years, barb served u. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of michigan, appointed by barack obama. And she was the first woman to serve in that positi