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Bitcoin: Money or Digital Gold? With Sergej Kotliar of Bitrefill

Sergej Kotliar

Sergej believes bitcoin should be used as a global digital currency that people actually "use" to buy things with.

Host
Cady Voge

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About the Episode

This week we talk to Swedish entrepreneur, Sergej Kotliar about his belief that people should be able to pay for just about anything with bitcoin and how he’s working to make that happen.

His company, Bitrefill, allows people in 163 countries to top up their prepaid phone balances using bitcoin. 70% of the world uses prepaid phones rather than paying a monthly flat rate plan! That’s huge.

We chat about why phone technology might be a good avenue for popularizing the use of bitcoin as money, and how someone (me?) should start a podcast all about either awkward silences and/or gambling!

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Learn more about Sergej’s company here: www.bitrefill.com

Producers: Cady Voge
Matt Aaron

Host: Cady Voge

About the Host

Cady Voge

Cady Voge is a freelance journalist based in Bogotá, Colombia. She writes, produces radio packages, and makes videos about all kinds of topics. In Colombia she’s focused on the recent peace process there, Venezuelan migrants, and really any story highlighting people living life on the fringes of society. She’s also a documentary filmmaker, covering stories like that of an exceptional orphanage in India, and environmental degradation in Mexico. She’s fascinated by bitcoin because of the extraordinary ways that it and other applications of blockchain technology are already changing regular peoples’ lives, and she’s curious about its potential for more disruptive change to all kinds of industries in the future. Is bitcoin really as revolutionary as the invention of the Internet, like people say it is? She’s keen to find out. Follow along each week on Humans of Bitcoin for a chat between Cady and all different kinds of guests, where they’ll discuss the extraordinary stories of change in the time of digital money.

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