Bitcoin — A New Regulatory Threat?
Is the new global business tax rate agreement a shot across the bow for Bitcoin?
This morning, at short notice, I was asked to appear on Asharq Business, Bloomberg’s Dubai broadcasting division, to “discuss Bitcoin” on their flagship business program.
To be honest, I always get a little nervous before a live TV interview. It’s one thing to make a gaff when explaining something to colleagues or at an event, it’s another to do it on live TV on a clip that can be re-run ad infinitum. It’s not happened yet, thank goodness.
Well, at least as far as I know anyway.
The added complication with foreign media, of course, is live interpretation. My Arabic is non-existent so resident interpreter Hassam stepped in to provide live two-way translation in my ear. It is a skill I am in total awe of.
As the countdown to live broadcast came through my earpiece and I adopted the obligatory “sit upright and stare straight at camera” position (always slightly uncomfortable because of the producer’s insistence you sit at a certain height and angle for lighting and on screen graphics), I realized I still didn’t know what we were going to be talking about.
