Digital Currency
topic on 5 shows · 9 statements across 7 episodes
American Optimist 
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Capital Allocators 
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9 statements about Digital Currency, every show
Allaire: USDC is the world's most transacted digital currency
“So now today, like you know, you actually can look at like transaction volumes of USDC, which is by far the most transacted digital currency in the world, way more than anything else.”
Berlia: First country issuing usable digital currency wins rapid market share
“The first country that gets out of widely used digital currency that a lot of the world can adopt for personal consumption, trade, and stability, Is going to take up rapid, rapid market share.”
Berlia: Only four or five global economies have digital currency credibility
“I think there are only maybe four or five economies in the world that have the credibility To really put out something that a vast majority of the world would want to use.”
Peters: Digital Cash Enables Total State Financial Control and Surveillance
“Once you've moved people off paper money, there's no place to hide. And so that's how the government acquires power through that, because once they do that, well, think of all the things that you can do with that, right? One of the things you can do is you can…”
Armstrong: Centralized national digital currencies miss the entire point of cryptocurrency
“I am skeptical of countries like Ecuador saying they're going to create their own digital currency, since if you centralize a digital currency, it seems to miss the whole point in my book.”
Xie: Early digital currency attempts failed because of centralized structures
“So there were a lot of attempts at this, but they were all failing because they were centralized entities.”
Armstrong: Digital currencies will reach Visa-level transaction throughput
“I think there's nothing preventing digital currency from getting to Visa level. If today Ethereum can do somewhere between 10 and 25 transactions a second, that's really only two or three orders of magnitude away from Visa scale.”
Armstrong: Digital currency will bring financial services to 2.5B unbanked people
“There's a lot of people today who don't have access to the financial system, 2.5 billion people actually, according to the Gates Foundation, I think digital currency will bring financial services to them.”