Nexus Embassy Conference 2017 at the Aspen Meadows Resort, home of the Aspen Institute. Doug Casey, the chairman of the Casey Institute talks about Bitcoin as an Investment.Doug Casey is best known as a speculator, economic commentator, and author of seven books. His first book, "The International Man", sold tens of thousands of copies around the world, and was the largest selling book in the history of Rhodesia-a record that will never be broken.His second, "Crisis Investing" was on the New York Times bestseller list for 29 weeks, including 11 weeks at #1. His third book, "Strategic Investing", reached #7 on the NYT list. He's currently completing a series of six novels reforming the reputations of politically incorrect occupations. The first, "Speculator" was released in July of 2016; the second "Drug Lord" in September 2017.He has been a featured guest on hundreds of radio and TV shows, including David Letterman, Merv Griffin, Charlie Rose, Phil Donahue, Regis Philbin, Maury Povich, NBC News and CNN, and has been the topic of numerous features in periodicals such as Time, Forbes, People and the Washington Post. He is also the founder of the Eris Society, a non-profit organization that for 30 years brought together hundreds of the world's leading thinkers on a wide range of eclectic topics related to the arts, sciences, technology, finance and medicine. His firm, Casey Research, LLC, publishes a variety of publications and web sites with a combined weekly audience in excess of 300,000 individuals, largely high-net-worth investors. He can be reached at Caseyresearch.com or internationalman.com.Mr. Casey has visited over 155 countries, most of them several times, and lived in ten. He has been active in polo, skydiving, martial arts, scuba, auto racing and competitive shooting. He lives mainly in Cafayate Argentina, Punta del Este Uruguay, and Aspen Colorado.