Julian Assange and Eric Schmidt talk about bitcoin

[bitbitcoins]

Here is the transcript of a secret meeting that took place in uk between Eric Schmidt (Google ceo) and Julian Assange (Wikileaks founder) as he was under arrest. It's just the part of the recorded transcription that talk about Bitcoin but the whole five hours recording is really interesting ! you should find it on wikileaks.
http://bitbitcoins.com/content/julian-assange-and-eric-schmidt-talking-about-bitcoin

[jackjack]

tl;dr:
Schmidt didn't give a shit
Assange was high: "it is not going to decay like apples or steaks."

[threeip]

Julian Assange
[...] you know about Bitcoin?

Eric Schmidt
No.

Julian Assange
Here is my digital currency and, now I take a copy of it. And now I want to buy your bit of egg. And then you go... and now I want to buy your radish! And you go, what? I've already got that!

Eric Schmidt most definitely did not give a shit and wanted to talk about flying egyptian cellphones etc

[Matthew N. Wright]

you should found it on wikileaks.

Found it! http://wikileaks.org/Transcript-Meeting-Assange-Schmidt.html

Now no one has to look at that horrible design at bitbitcoins.com 

[bitbitcoins]

... hmm at last it sorted out for you the only part talking about bitcoins ... and also gave you the place where you can find the whole article ... fair enough for bitbitcoins

[Matthew N. Wright]

... hmm at last it sorted out for you the only part talking about bitcoins ... and also gave you the place where you can find the whole article ... fair enough for bitbitcoins

http://wikileaks.org/Transcript-Meeting-Assange-Schmidt.html#688 

[bitbitcoins]

tricky ... but I still support the horrible design

[bitbitcoins]

tl;dr:
Schmidt didn't give a shit
Assange was high: "it is not going to decay like apples or steaks."

Like gold ...

some more info : http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/15/the-coming-political-battle-over-bitcoin/

[dogie]

Julian Assange
[...] you know about Bitcoin?

Eric Schmidt
No.

Julian Assange
Here is my digital currency and, now I take a copy of it. And now I want to buy your bit of egg. And then you go... and now I want to buy your radish! And you go, what? I've already got that!

Eric Schmidt most definitely did not give a shit and wanted to talk about flying egyptian cellphones etc

Well of course he had never heard of Bitcoin -- he's a respectable CEO! And what's a market maker/technology incubator going to do with a monetary system anyway? Going into that space would be greedy.

No he's not, he's a visionary.

[bitcryptonit]

good thing is we are not alone in that battle

[bitbitcoins]

Also interesting, from the same author and with the same discussion-style, you should read the exchange between Assange, Appelbaum and Zimmerman.: Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet. You will learn about crypto and have the opportunity to think about your own privacy in the frame of a globalized world ... but don't become paranoïd Here is the link to the book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cypherpunks-Freedom-Future-Internet-ebook/dp/B00AZBI4IO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1369743039&sr=8-2&keywords=assange+Appelbaum

[Rampion]

Man, what a disappointment, Eric Schmidt didn't give a shit about Bitcoin.

[oakpacific]

Man, what a disappointment, Eric Schmidt didn't give a shit about Bitcoin.

He does now.

[bitbitcoins]

Man, what a disappointment, Eric Schmidt didn't give a shit about Bitcoin.

He does now.

Yes ...  remember, this discussion took place in 2011 ... hopefully things changed from that time ...

[Rampion]

Man, what a disappointment, Eric Schmidt didn't give a shit about Bitcoin.

He does now.

Yes ...  remember, this discussion took place in 2011 ... hopefully things changed from that time ...

Still it's incredible how a guy who is supposed to be a visionary had so little to say about Bitcoin. First time I heard about BTC... It blew my mind, I only had questions in my head and I had the urge to read more and more about it. It's so revolutionary, so game changing... That I'm starting to doubt Eric is such a "visionary" after reading his super-cold reply to Assange's explanation of Bitcoin.

[jackjack]

Man, what a disappointment, Eric Schmidt didn't give a shit about Bitcoin.

He does now.

Yes ...  remember, this discussion took place in 2011 ... hopefully things changed from that time ...

Still it's incredible how a guy who is supposed to be a visionary had so little to say about Bitcoin. First time I heard about BTC... It blew my mind, I only had questions in my head and I had the urge to read more and more about it. It's so revolutionary, so game changing... That I'm starting to doubt Eric is such a "visionary" after reading his super-cold reply to Assange's explanation of Bitcoin.

Pretty much this

[cdog]

Man, what a disappointment, Eric Schmidt didn't give a shit about Bitcoin.

He does now.

Yes ...  remember, this discussion took place in 2011 ... hopefully things changed from that time ...

Still it's incredible how a guy who is supposed to be a visionary had so little to say about Bitcoin. First time I heard about BTC... It blew my mind, I only had questions in my head and I had the urge to read more and more about it. It's so revolutionary, so game changing... That I'm starting to doubt Eric is such a "visionary" after reading his super-cold reply to Assange's explanation of Bitcoin.

Im imagining someone with such a high IQ and deep understanding of technology doesnt come across technologies hes never heard of often, and Eric was probably a bit taken aback, embarrassed, and stand-offish/dismissive because hey, hed never heard of it, how important could it be?

[threeip]

Eric was probably a bit taken aback, embarrassed, and stand-offish/dismissive because hey, he didn't invent  it, how important could it be?

Fixed that for ya.

Also, quoting this again...

"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

...so why would anyone want Bitcoin, just bend over and take our gCheckout/gWallet...

[Inedible]

Still it's incredible how a guy who is supposed to be a visionary had so little to say about Bitcoin. First time I heard about BTC... It blew my mind, I only had questions in my head and I had the urge to read more and more about it. It's so revolutionary, so game changing... That I'm starting to doubt Eric is such a "visionary" after reading his super-cold reply to Assange's explanation of Bitcoin.

You probably run your billion dollar empire much more efficiently than he does, thus leaving you the time to indulge on learning about anything that comes your way.

 

But seriously, he probably has ideas pitched at him all the time so he probably has a team of people that filter everything out that seems whacky and is left with a short list of 10 hot things to look at every week instead of thousands.

[oakpacific]

Man, what a disappointment, Eric Schmidt didn't give a shit about Bitcoin.

He does now.

Yes ...  remember, this discussion took place in 2011 ... hopefully things changed from that time ...

Still it's incredible how a guy who is supposed to be a visionary had so little to say about Bitcoin. First time I heard about BTC... It blew my mind, I only had questions in my head and I had the urge to read more and more about it. It's so revolutionary, so game changing... That I'm starting to doubt Eric is such a "visionary" after reading his super-cold reply to Assange's explanation of Bitcoin.

I think it's quite the other way around, millions of people coming up with millions of supposedly "revolutionary" ideas each day(just check how many are out there in this forum), there is simply too much noise in this whole mess, so instead of following the information stream everyday, he somehow decides, like many who has done before him, to rely on people he considers smart to introduce him to the "real deals", and from the transcript it seems to be be exactly his purpose of visit to Julian Assange(both Schmidt and Assange were both good computer scientists and programmers, FYI), now Schmidt has recognized Bitcoin's technical merits and called it a "tour de force".

Also what must be pointed out is Bitcoin's mathematical brilliance is out of the reach of normal human beings who do not normally follow the progress of cryptography(which Assange does), so Schmidt needs Assange to "digest" it a bit to explain to him.