Peter McCormack (Bitcoin Evangelist)

Peter McCormack (Bitcoin Evangelist) is a British Cryptocurrency investor, podcaster, former in the advertising industry, who co-founded and leads What Bitcoin Did podcast (WBD). He also own's a football team, FC Bedford. Peter has writted Online Advertising Does not Wor. What Bitcoin Did has been teaching and podcasting one to one conversation with many Cryptocurrency experts.
Life
Peter McCormack was born in Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, Berkshire. He grew up in Kempston, a town and civil parish in the Borough of Bedford, Bedfordshire. He dropped out of Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College (where he studied Music Industry Management) in 2000. From June 2005 to February 2007, McCormack held the role of Commercial Director at Evolving Media, which launched his temporary career in digital marketing. From February 2007 to May 2009 he was managing director of Evolving Media Network. In September 2009 he set up the digital transformation consultancy McCormack & Morrison with his Evolving colleague Oliver Morrison.
McCormack's mother died in January 2017, after which McCormack took time off to grieve. Around the same time, after about a year of trading cryptocurrencies, McCormack started blogging about the crypto industry. In 2017, he got briefly rich on Bitcoin but then “lost almost everything”,.
In November 2017, McCormack started his podcast "What Bitcoin Did". In October 2019, he released the first episode of his other podcast, "Defiance".
Education
Bedford Road Lower School, then Bedford Modern School. He dropped out of Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College (where he studied Music Industry Management) in 2000.
What Bitcoin Did Podcast
Peter started What Bitcoin Did Podcast after quitting the advertising industry and discovering bitcoin, he started the podcast in November 2017 as a hobby to learn more. On What Bitcoin Did, McCormack interviews experts on the topics of Bitcoin development, adoption, privacy, and investment. He has discussed political topics on the podcast as well. Some notable figures McCormack has featured on What Bitcoin Did are Adam Back, ,Nayib Bukele, Vitalik Buterin and many more people.The podcast has grown to over 100 episodes with a guest list that is a testament to the diversity of knowledge and opinions that represent the broader Bitcoin community.
Defiance Podcast
Defiance has no political bias. They select guests based on the story alone and will not enter into any debates regarding guest choice or topics covered. Nobody is "given a platform", guests are offered an interview as they stated on website.
Bedford FC
Bedford F.C. is owned by Peter is a football club based in Bedford, England. Established in 2002 as a merger of Bedford United and US Valerio, the club are currently members of the Spartan South Midlands League Division One and play at McMullen Park. They are affiliated to the Bedfordshire County Football Association.

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