Popper: Argentina's High Tech Literacy Enabled Early Bitcoin Adoption
Nathaniel Popper · a16z Podcast | Which Bitcoin Players Matter? · Jan 2, 2019 · at 4:38
Nathaniel Popper, author of Digital Gold, explains why Argentina adopted cryptocurrency more readily than other economies experiencing high inflation.
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“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 idea of a digital currency. I don't know that that's the same conditions exist in a place like Venezuela or Zimbabwe, so Argentina is somewhat unusual in that respect.”
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