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“Bitcoin uses mathematics to introduce the concept of unalterable, predictable outcomes into a payment system. This is totally alien because we’ve never done it in financial systems before, and the initial reaction to that is often, "Well, that’s broken.”
― The Internet of Money Volume Two
― The Internet of Money Volume Two
“Inexorably, the long downtrend of the news industry started. They gutted their foreign desks, they gutted their investigative journalism, they gutted their fact checking, they gutted their copyeditor desks. What was left was a bunch of interns, running around copying the press releases of powerful corporations and presenting them as fact, taking notes when someone who was seemingly important said something, not questioning any of it, just writing it down and publishing it—as truth. ”
― The Internet of Money Volume Two
― The Internet of Money Volume Two
“Children born today will never have a bank account. They will have a bank _app_—not a bank app that gives them access to their bank account, but a bank app that makes them a banker, an international banker in an app. They will not be permitted to open a traditional bank account until they are 16 years old; by that time, I hope they will have at least six or more years of experience with digital currencies. I would like to watch them walk into a bank branch to have someone explain to them what “three to five business days" means.”
― The Internet of Money Volume Two
― The Internet of Money Volume Two
“It has deprived that mind of the cardinal advantage of knowing the sublime meaning of the splendid Jewish-Christian Scriptures, which are a collection of ancient mythographic portrayals of spiritual truth, sadly and calamitously mistaken for history.”
― The Esoteric Structure of the Alphabet
― The Esoteric Structure of the Alphabet
“Currency is the email of blockchains. Payments are the fundamental infrastructure that will enable density of adoption. It’s very, very enticing to say, "This is about more than money!" It absolutely is, in the long term. The vision of this technology is far beyond money, but you can’t build that unless you first build the money part. That’s what creates the security. That’s what creates the velocity, the liquidity, the infrastructure. That’s what funds the entire ecosystem. In the end, when we do deliver these services to people, it won’t be so they can open a bank account. This isn’t about banking the unbanked; it’s about unbanking all of us.”
― The Internet of Money Volume Two
― The Internet of Money Volume Two
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