you have more than the world's number one supercomputer. >> cooper: back in new york, by 2013, charlie shrem his company's computers out of his parents' basement. he was spending a lot of time travelling to industry conferences and talking up bitcoin. charlie was charismatic. charlie was funny. but could charlie be trusted to run a business? in a new book, "bitcoin billionaires," ben mezrich describes how bitinstant's biggest investors, the winklevoss twins, grew concerned that their young c.e.o. was spending too much time traveling and partying, and not paying enough attention to the details of running his company. for example: charlie knew the u.s. government was concerned about how cyber-thieves and money-launderers were using bitcoin. his company was required to monitor its customers and report any suspicious activity. banks have whole departments that are supposed to do this. the person at bitinstant who charlie put in charge of it was charlie. so, you were in charge of making sure that you complied with, with rules and regulations for financial transactions. >> shrem: yes. >> cooper: w

charged with money laundering charlie shrem c.e.o. of bit instant is arrested over allegations of money laundering in connection with silk road he is arrested at j.f.k. airport for charges filed and a manhattan federal court right i remember meeting charlie outside of the office of bit instant near silicon alley in new york city meeting with roger baer as well who was very active in the space and a friend of ours matthew mellon was also active in the space and an investor in bit instant and he was very excited about this new technology and he went to the office and they had a ticker tape set up with the price of bitcoin and this is part of that 1st wave again the pinwheels in the eyes people that were transfixed by the technology who looked into the void of the coming fear nightmare and were motivated to start a company and to take on the man and of course charlie than met. the law of course the thing. is that we had just ended 2013 with the u.s. government seizing all these big coin from ross albright and then we saw the arrest of ch

charged with money laundering charlie shrem c.e.o. of bit instant is arrested over allegations of money laundering in connection with silk road he is arrested at j.f.k. airport for charges filed and in manhattan federal court right i remember meeting charlie outside of the office of bit instant near silicon alley in new york city meeting with roger baer as well who was very active in the space and a friend of ours matthew mellon was also active in the space and an investor in bit instant and he was very excited about this new technology and he went to the office and they had a ticker tape set up with the price of bitcoin and this is part of that 1st wave again the pinwheels in the eyes of people that were transfixed by the technology who looked into the void of the coming fear nightmare.

kurds and he was bringing bitcoin to them they were reorganizing their economic system so here if charlie shrem was big points 1st fallon we were talking queen's 1st revolutionary well but coin is hard money and hard money begets free trade and free trade on a straight as peaceful trade and that is a direct con. flicked with people who prefer money trade and counterfeit trade and pushing war so you're always this conflict conflict between love and hate and ok not to get too religious or anything but their message of you know 2000 years ago of love came up against the state the roman state but how did the message of love spread in the early days of christianity it spread on the roads that had been built by the by the romans so the romans by building those roads that connected the empire set the stage for the collapse of the empire because a message of anti war anti empire was able to just walk down the road and the apostles just spread the message of love now big coin is hard money it walks on the road of the internet that's already there into the social media minds of the collective unconscious

charged with money laundering charlie shrem c.e.o. of bit instant is arrested over allegations of money laundering in connection with silk road he is arrested at j.f.k. airport for charges filed and in manhattan federal court right i remember meeting charlie outside of the office of bit instant near silicon alley in new york city meeting with roger bear as well who was very active in the space and a friend of ours matthew mellon was also active in the space and an investor in bit instant and he was very excited about this didn't.