Armstrong: One billion people will use open finance within 20 years
Brian Armstrong · a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality · Jan 2, 2019 · at 14:01
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong discusses the long-term timeline for crypto transitioning from speculative investment to an open financial system used by a billion people daily.
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“There's a billion people using the open financial system on a daily basis, and, you know, I think that could be done in five years, like, without a lot of hard work, it could be 10 years, 20 years.”
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