Peter McCormack’s life has been an open book. He’s been candid with his audience and with Magazine about discovering Bitcoin while buying far too much cocaine on Silk Road and winding up in hospital in 2014.
A few years later, in 2019, he wrote a piece for The Guardian revealing that he’d made $1.2 million investing in Bitcoin and then lost it all.
But after selling his stack during the bear market to keep his What Bitcoin Did podcast afloat, in 2024 he’s emerged wealthier and healthier than ever before. This cycle he’s kept his earnings and realized his childhood dream of taking over the Bedford football club.
What Bitcoin Did is on the verge of transforming into a whole new podcast called The McCormack Show, and Real Bedford has added Bitcoin to its treasury. McCormack says he’s in a good place, both professionally and personally.
“I have everything I want in the world. When I wake up, I get to do whatever I want, which is a fabulous place to be. I work with my son, who is a beautiful soul. I see my daughter all the time. My dad comes to live with me six months a year and helps with my football club. I work with my brother. I see my friends. Yeah, you know what, I feel like I’m the luckiest person in the world to deliver this life.”
What Bitcoin Did becomes The McCormack Show
McCormack is in the fortunate position of being able to do anything he likes most days, as long as he turns out three podcasts a week. For the past seven years that’s been for What Bitcoin Did, the most popular podcast on Bitcoin in the world.
But having discussed every conceivable Bitcoin topic with every possible guest over 900 shows, he’s mixing things up and from September 10, it’ll be a whole new podcast with a different format and a theme that is “broader but with Bitcoin as the heartbeat.’
He shared more information on The McCormack Show on August 28 on X, saying that he’s fed up with…
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