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Vigna: Bitcoin diffuses centralized financial power across broader society
“What I think Bitcoin can do is take that power of the currency and diffuse it. A decentralized system where people really can be their own bank if you want to, or you can use a certain, you know, it takes that concentrated power and it diffuses it among the br…”
Paul Vigna Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:27 a16z Podcast | The Five Stages of Bitcoin -- Disdain, Dismissal, Curiosity, Oh F**k!, and Acceptance
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Vigna outlines the five psychological stages of Bitcoin adoption
“The stages, it's, you know, it's dismissal, it's disdain. Your first one is disdain. Disdain, dismissal, curiosity. The fourth one is actually the key. The fourth one is the aha moment, the eureka moment, and we played around with, I wanted to call it the oh f…”
Paul Vigna Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:28 a16z Podcast | The Five Stages of Bitcoin -- Disdain, Dismissal, Curiosity, Oh F**k!, and Acceptance
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