Patrick Byrne: Entrepreneurship, Austrian Economics, and the Cryptorevolution

Tags: The Entrepreneur, Financial Markets, Free Markets

03/14/2015 Jeff Deist Patrick M. Byrne

Our show this weekend features Patrick Byrne, the Chairman and CEO of Overstock.com. Patrick was here at our Auburn campus this past week presenting a keynote speech at our Austrian Economics Research Conference. His talk focuses on institutional design—how entrepreneurs ought to operate. Patrick also discusses Bitcoin technology and the entrepreneurial opportunities behind the Blockchain, itself. What Patrick is cooking-up could revolutionize the financial markets in the form of a peer-to-peer trading system that could actually replace Wall Street.

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