Stark: Crypto skepticism mirrors 1990s media doubts about the internet
Elizabeth Stark · An Intro to Crypto: Decentralization, the Big Picture · Jul 15, 2018 · at 27:22
Elizabeth Stark, CEO of Lightning Labs, compares current media skepticism surrounding cryptocurrency to historical skepticism about the internet.
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“There were some great articles from the mid nineties where people wrote like the internet will never be a thing. Right. And like some interesting quotes around. So the internet's impact on the economy will be less than that of the fax machine. And I think we're seeing some of that now as well, where, you know, you're always going to have doubters. But there's so much potential and yet we just need time to really build it out.”
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