Q people who were inside, you know, like early computer scientists working on computer networking protocols with Bitcoin, uh, It's come, even though we're still talking about it being early days yet, it's come a much faster, like the, the list of people you rattled off, like that are interested, that would have taken 1015 years in the past with past technologies. Like, why do you think that's accelerating right now?
A Well, I, I think, you know, one of the things about, about Bitcoin's history is that it's, it's development, it really is kind of a quirk of history. I mean, the fact that this thing comes out at the, the height of the financial crisis, the panic, Where you're seeing the old order literally collapse and fall apart, and you're seeing all its failings in very painful fashion. That created a groundswell under Bitcoin that helped it in some ways and hurt it in some ways. It helped it because I think that that's part of the reason why it's grown so much faster than other technologies would have. It's hurt it in some ways too, because I think it got a lot of attention that it didn't need, and, and part of it was, was The media too, and we're part, we are part of the media, uh, writing stories about it, and you kind of write about it and talk about it thinking that it's a built thing. Bitcoin is out there. It's done. It's, and when it invariably goes through its growing pains and, and it has the failures and the breakdowns, which are going to happen in any system being built, people say, oh my god, this thing's terrible. It's, it's broken. It doesn't work. It's volatile. It's all these things. No, it's still being built. It's still happening. And so I think people don't quite understand that, you know, That this thing is at version 0.9 whatever now. It's not even at one point O. Forge…
AI assessment note: “the financial crisis I think really kind of was fuel for the growth”