Bitcoin, every mention

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▶ 18:26 John Collison Beginning with the invention of modern cryptocurrency with the Bitcoin white paper of 2008, it has taken

▶ 9:14 John Collison In 25, the price of Bitcoin dropped precipitously and is now 50% down from October, but stablecoin payments volume doubled to around 400,000,000,060 percent of which is estimated to represent B to B payments. 2 times in the scene

▶ 20:44 Henri Stern And there was a, there was a poster that had a crypto app on it, and there were two logos on it, it was Bitcoin, it was Tether.
▶ 35:01 John Collison And I think similarly people think of blockchains happening at one point in time, but like we tried for the payments use case, we tried raw Bitcoin, no lightning or anything back in the day in like, 3 times in the scene
▶ 38:40 Henri Stern Like, if you go through the history, it's like very early Bitcoin is, I think, the reemergence of, like, peer-to-peer computing from the, like, you know, late nineties, early aughts, where instead of these being volunteer networks like… 3 times in the scene
▶ 47:00 Henri Stern No, but that's why I think Bitcoin, at least, is very simple.
▶ 1:14:56 Henri Stern Like, you know, the joke is something like, Bitcoin grows one death at a time, which as a person holding gold dies, and a new generation will decide to hold the digital equivalent.

▶ 1:15:12 John Collison And in particular, it feels like it requires high openness where there's something about early crypto where it attracted, you know, folks like Balaji, where there was all these grand pronouncements of like, oh, Bitcoin will supersede the… 3 times in the scene

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