![]() He’s a big muscly Bitcoiner with tatts and a beard who nevertheless sees major benefits in yoga, meditation and veganism. There are a bunch of apparent contradictions when it comes to McCormack. I mean, apart from having a good wife, I have everything I need in life, and money is not going to get me more of what I need.” McContradictory Would I swap that for more money? No, I wouldn’t at all. “I just do what the f- I want - and that is the best thing that you can have, complete control over your time. (He has a 16 year old son he lives with and a 10 year old daughter he shares custody for.) “I get to wake up every day and decide what I want to do.” After our interview he’s off to do a personal training session in the middle of the day, then he’ll maybe pick up the kids at 4pm and hit the shops. “Time is like the most valuable resource you have,” he explains. While he’s still amassing piles of Bitcoin, McCormack places a much higher value on his time and independence than he does on making money - being able to do what he likes, when he likes, and to spend his days engaged in creative and satisfying work. Everything else is just like, more stuff.” Time rich “We’re not rich, I don’t have a flash car, we don’t have a big house. As a true adherent to Bitcoin philosophy he transparently reports his finances online, showing the business - including his other podcast Defiance - turning over $71,000 a month and clearing $16,000 in profit. He’s also become one of the most well known and successful crypto podcasters in the industry, with the What Bitcoin Did show downloaded 7.2 million times in total, including a record 569,000 in January alone. He’s looking fitter and healthier than he has in years, after giving up drinking and riding his Peleton bike around digital courses for miles and miles during lockdown. McCormack is in a much better place now, and the anxiety has long since subsided. Even if I’d been really rich, I still would have had the panic attacks and anxiety. “My marriage broke up and I couldn’t have been in a worse place. Money in the bank, good salary,” he says. I had a company in London that turned over three million a year. “But the wealthiest time of my life was the most miserable. “I did have a lot of money in my life a couple of times,” says the 42 year old on a call from his home in Bedford. For someone who devotes so much of his life to Bitcoin and finance - and who has made and lost a small fortune twice now - podcaster Peter McCormack doesn’t actually seem to care that much for money. ![]()
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