Paul Vigna

Managing Editor, American Banker · 1 appearance on the record.

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Paul Vigna spent 25 years as a reporter and editor for Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal, covering cryptocurrency and capital markets. He co-authored The Age of Cryptocurrency and The Truth Machine, and now serves as Managing Editor at American Banker.

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Insight
Vigna: Bitcoin diffuses centralized financial power across broader society
“What I think Bitcoin can do is take that power of the currency and diffuse it. A decentralized system where people really can be their own bank if you want to, or you can use a certain, you know, it takes that concentrated power and it diffuses it among the br…”
Paul Vigna Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:27 a16z Podcast | The Five Stages of Bitcoin -- Disdain, Dismissal, Curiosity, Oh F**k!, and Acceptance
Insight
Vigna outlines the five psychological stages of Bitcoin adoption
“The stages, it's, you know, it's dismissal, it's disdain. Your first one is disdain. Disdain, dismissal, curiosity. The fourth one is actually the key. The fourth one is the aha moment, the eureka moment, and we played around with, I wanted to call it the oh f…”
Paul Vigna Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:28 a16z Podcast | The Five Stages of Bitcoin -- Disdain, Dismissal, Curiosity, Oh F**k!, and Acceptance
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Vigna: Mainstream Bitcoin trust requires time to prove stability
“Until Bitcoin proves itself over time to be a stable, reliable store of value, a platform, a good platform, people won't trust it. I mean, it just, it literally is just a time element of this thing proving itself.”
Paul Vigna Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:27 a16z Podcast | The Five Stages of Bitcoin -- Disdain, Dismissal, Curiosity, Oh F**k!, and Acceptance
What-if
Vigna: The 2008 financial crisis spurred Bitcoin's rapid early growth
“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.”
Paul Vigna Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:41 a16z Podcast | The Five Stages of Bitcoin -- Disdain, Dismissal, Curiosity, Oh F**k!, and Acceptance

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a16z Podcast | The Five Stages of Bitcoin -- Disdain, Dismissal, Curiosity, Oh F**k!, and Jan 2, 2019 6m
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