Argentina

7 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Nathaniel Popper · said 47 times in 17 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019 positive
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Popper: Argentina's High Tech Literacy Enabled Early Bitcoin Adoption
“I think that what Argentina has that a lot of other places don't have with dysfunctional economies is a very well-educated, literate tech-savvy population that, that knew how to embrace this technology and that had the skills to do that and a comfort with, The…”
Nathaniel Popper Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:38 a16z Podcast | Which Bitcoin Players Matter?
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
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Popper: Improved infrastructure will allow Bitcoin to compete globally like in Argentina
“When you look at it, there are a lot of lessons to be drawn for how it might be used elsewhere once, once the technology, once the protocol, once the code, once the infrastructure is improved, it will be able to compete in other places in similar ways”
Nathaniel Popper Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:40 a16z Podcast | Which Bitcoin Players Matter?
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Supported
Popper: US Dollar Is Argentina's Primary Workaround for the Peso
“Frankly, the most popular way to get around the peso is the dollar, so there are already, there's already a whole infrastructure and world of money changers in Argentina who are changing between dollars and pesos and that's, That is something that sort of set …”
Nathaniel Popper Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:04 a16z Podcast | Which Bitcoin Players Matter?
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
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Popper: Bitcoin's advantages in Argentina will diminish if inflation and currency controls end
“If the government does away with that, if the government begins to deal with inflation, then the advantages of Bitcoin are going to become a lot less significant.”
Nathaniel Popper Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:06 a16z Podcast | Which Bitcoin Players Matter?
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Opinion
Popper: Argentina is not the future or model for broader Bitcoin adoption
“I wouldn't argue that Argentina is the future of Bitcoin, or Argentina is paving the way for Bitcoin, you know, broader adoption by ordinary people. I just think it's a great experiment to watch, because it's the place where people are trying that right now”
Nathaniel Popper Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:46 a16z Podcast | Which Bitcoin Players Matter?
Jan 2, 2019 positive
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Popper: Argentina is the only country where ordinary citizens use Bitcoin commercially
“And in Argentina, as I mentioned, as you mentioned, is really the one place where I saw that happening, where I saw ordinary people who didn't have any political motivations, didn't really understand the technology using Bitcoin because it allowed them to do s…”
Nathaniel Popper Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:20 a16z Podcast | Which Bitcoin Players Matter?
Feb 28, 2024 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Dixon: 18% of Argentinians own stablecoins and 50 million Americans own crypto
“Like Argentina, something like last number I saw was 18% of Argentinians have owned a stable coin. In America, fifty million people have crypto and mostly Bitcoin.”
Chris Dixon Feb 28, 2024 ▶ 1:06:54 Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
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