Goldberg: Stablecoins Are Critical for E-Commerce Adoption in Crypto
Adam Goldberg · 20VC: Lightspeed Partner Adam Goldberg on Why There Remains No Mass Market Crypto Consumer Product, The Future For The Token Economy, The Good and Bad of Telegram's ICO and Why The Rate of Founder Learning is The Most Important Element A VC Can Assess · Jul 30, 2018 · at 9:40
Adam Goldberg, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, discusses the missing infrastructure components required for consumer application adoption in crypto.
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“So this is why stable coins are extremely important. It's hard to have an e-commerce or e-commerce use case without a unit of account.”
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