Bitcoin, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Bitcoin comes up
Ai eats the world
- ▶ 34:27 Benedict Evans And that, that's like, that takes you to Bitcoin and other things.
Metaverse and crypto - beyond the BS
- ▶ 4:09 Benedict Evans Now, what immediately then happened was people used it to mean trading Bitcoin and, um, FTX.
The FTX face-palm
- ▶ 8:40 Benedict Evans So, so second point is this very simple thing is a Bitcoin token, is it a security or not? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:27 Benedict Evans I mean, obviously there's gold bugs, and gold bugs are kind of a part of the original Bitcoin crowd, um, but there's a kind of difference between, like, there is fraud in this system, and therefore the whole thing is invalidated. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:25 Benedict Evans Um, we've had people, A, there is Bitcoin and Ethereum, which are financial instruments that may or may not have applications built upon them, and may or may not be used as a current basis of financial systems, or payment systems, or what… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:49 Benedict Evans You know, there's a sort of argument that used to drive me crazy, which is people saying, well, the Bitcoin paper was published in whenever it was, 10 years ago, and we don't have anything yet, therefore we'll never have anything. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:08 Benedict Evans To think about my own psychology, you know, I remember looking at internet stocks in 99, and I remember looking at the, you know, Bitcoin in whenever it was, 2016, 17, which was the original bubble, um, and then looking at, you know,… 3 times in the scene
The future of Twitter
- ▶ 5:45 Benedict Evans And so it was, it was a protocol, and it was completely open, and a lot of people looked at it as kind of the way people talk about Bitcoin now.
The Evolution of networks
- ▶ 12:23 Benedict Evans Um, and obviously part of the point of, um, you know, part of the concept of Bitcoin originally is that you solve the cost of problem by rewarding the early adopters with tokens.
- ▶ 19:17 Benedict Evans I mean, theoretically, if, you know, go to kind of Bitcoin maximalist, theoretically, if, if, if Amazon was built on, on, on Web three, then of course you could build your own browser that could, could, could filter and sort and index the…
- ▶ 26:41 Benedict Evans And sort of where Bitcoin is now, where crypto is now, is just like, well, Bitcoin is very cool, but it doesn't really do it. 2 times in the scene
Ukraine
- ▶ 6:01 Benedict Evans And so that's clearly, that's also a, um, a Bitcoin and a crypto story, which is, never mind, you know, turning off Facebook, you've turned off the fucking money system. 8 times in the scene
Talking about crypto
- ▶ 2:01 Benedict Evans And so the first wave of this was sort of five to 10 years ago, say, which was Bitcoin, and it's digital gold, it's digital money, it's a way, it's a virtual asset, a digital asset, it's a way of moving money around, it's an alternative to… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:48 Benedict Evans Cause one of them is again, there's all the noise and say, you know, I'm going to create a shit copy of Minecraft that runs on Bitcoin.
What we know about web 3 so far
- ▶ 6:44 Benedict Evans Um, if, if you call it Bitcoin, that ignores all the other stuff.
Metaverse - beyond the buzzword
- ▶ 35:03 Benedict Evans Very explicit in the whole concept of the original Bitcoin paper is speculation jumpstarts the network and rewards early adopters.