Monegro: Bitcoin will not become a currency for buying coffee
Joel Monegro · a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks as Emerging Economies (Done Right?) · Feb 26, 2019 · at 11:47
Joel Monegro, partner at Placeholder VC, discusses the functional limits of Bitcoin as an everyday consumer currency.
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“But I also don't think we're heading to a world where you buy your coffee with Bitcoin.”
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