{"id":17684,"date":"2021-02-11T22:04:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T22:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci027cfe6b000a2697"},"modified":"2025-10-02T15:09:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:09:03","slug":"interview-what-bitcoin-started-with-erik-voorhees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/culture\/interview-what-bitcoin-started-with-erik-voorhees","title":{"rendered":"Interview: What Bitcoin Started With Erik Voorhees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bitcoin-magazine-podcast-template.png\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"pf77aNHOXKc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What Bitcoin Started w\/ Erik Voorhees - Bitcoin Magazine Podcast\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pf77aNHOXKc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Listen To This Episode:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/bitcoin-magazine-podcast\/id1459884105?i=1000508611293\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/0yFUvXU3goDKAsTVof2amO?si=1KnLryfORdihq0JEDyZ1bQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9iaXRjb2lubWFnYXppbmUubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M\/episode\/NDJhMjQ4ODQtMjgyMC00ZGE5LTkwY2ItYjNmNmFhYTNlMTE1?sa=X&amp;ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjYzcWtoOLuAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQJg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Libsyn<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/overcast.fm\/+Rp4r6YmSw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Overcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This week on the &#8220;Bitcoin Magazine Podcast,&#8221; host Christian Keroles sat down with early Bitcoin adopter and entrepreneur Erik Voorhees. He has had an enormous impact on Bitcoin&#8217;s history starting some of its earliest companies, participating in the scaling wars and embracing the Ethereum ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>Voorhees sees the Bitcoin space in a different way than many Bitcoiners. He described everything within the &#8220;crypto&#8221; ecosystem as part of the same tree and argued that, although there are nefarious use cases and scams, that does not invalidate the entire space outside of Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>While still holding the majority of his value in bitcoin, Voorhees believes that Bitcoin was just the first building block of a decentralized finance ecosystem that he is excited to build.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik Voorhees joined the &#8220;Bitcoin Magazine Podcast&#8221; to discuss his history with Bitcoin and outlook on the larger decentralized finance ecosystem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":15547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1826,3109,543],"class_list":{"0":"post-17684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"tag-bitcoin-magazine-podcast","9":"tag-erik-voorhees","10":"tag-video"},"author_data":{"id":2520,"name":"Bitcoin Magazine","nicename":"bitcoin-magazine","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bitcoin-magazine-logo.jpeg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/bitcoin-magazine-podcast-template.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}