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
Have guessed, ben meza ms. Rics not here today, the author of bitcoin billionaires. I know. He got really sick this morning and just absolutely couldnt makeld it, so i will talk a lite bit about t his book come just r those of you who are wondering. [inaudible] [applause] we are going to lead time at the end for ideas q a as well, to please be thinking that your questions from mike. Have an interactive conversation with you. Let me justit are, actually goig to start is by sing a words about the book before we just do the deep dive into mike and his book. For anyt of you havent checked it out yet its called bitcoin billionaires and its the story of the window lost twins and yes, you may remember them from the facebook story. They were the brothers at harvard who actually hired Mark Zuckerberg to help them t build out their social Network Platform at harvard. Mark was the software developer, the code, the engineer who help them build the platform but then he actually ended up spinning aw
We, of course, welcome those who will join us on cspan booktv in the future. For those watching online, youre welcome to send questions or comments simply emailing us at speaker heritage. Org and, of course, we will post the program on our heritage home page for your future reference as well. Welcoming our guest today and leading our program is dakota woods, Senior Research fellow in our center for national defense. Mr. Woods served in the u. S. Marine corps as well as in an assignment in the office of net assessment. Upon retirement, he helped organize the national bio surveillance integration system. For five years he served as senior fellow at the center for strategic and budget tear assessments budgetary assessments. Please join me in welcoming dakota wood. Dakota . [applause] thank you, jon. Its a real pleasure to have you all here, but to have dr. Crane all the way down from carlisle where he took the hyperloop, was that it . The fastest run hes ever made to d. C. , so were glad
[inaudible discussion] good afternoon, welcome to the Heritage Foundation and our lewis layman auditorium. We join white house join us on the heritage. Org web site and those chinaing us on cspan booktv in the future. Those here inhouse we ask that courtty heck that our mobile devices of various sort have been silenced or turned off. Those watching online, youre welcome to send questions or commentses at any time. Simply email us as speaker heritage. Org and we will post the program on the heritage home page for your future reference as well. Welcoming our guests today and leading our program is dakotawoods, Senior Research fellow for defense programs and our center for national seps defense, mr. Wood served our nation for two deck theyd u. S. Marine concerned, including strategic analyst for the commandants of the marine corps and the office of the offers of net assessment. Upon retirement he helped organize the National Biosurveillance integration statement at the department of homel
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