Vigna: The 2008 financial crisis spurred Bitcoin's rapid early growth
Paul Vigna · a16z Podcast | The Five Stages of Bitcoin -- Disdain, Dismissal, Curiosity, Oh F**k!, and Acceptance · Jan 2, 2019 · at 13:41
Paul Vigna is a Wall Street Journal journalist and co-author of 'The Age of Cryptocurrency'. He is explaining how the timing of Bitcoin's release amid the 2008 financial crisis accelerated its early trajectory.
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“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.”
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