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Koppelman: Decentralized platforms will replace Uber, Airbnb, and eBay
“We assume that every platform that exists today, Uber, Airbnb, eBay, Will be replaced eventually by decentralized platforms and gnosis is a platform decentralized platform for prediction markets”
Martin Koppelman: Ethereum developer ease drives ecosystem hype over Bitcoin
“So for developers, if they have the idea, I want to build this and that, it's much, much, much easier to build it on Ethereum, and this is why all those new projects build on Ethereum, and that's where, where the hype is currently coming from.”
Köppelmann: Bitcoin's fixed-supply model forces a zero-sum global fight
“I'm especially not very convinced of the Bitcoin model, so kind of you have this limited supply, and then kind of the whole world is trying to fight around that”
Koppelman: Gnosis raised $12.5M selling 4% of GNO tokens
“So we sold them for, or we sold a few of them. So four percent of our tokens for 12.5 million dollars.”
Martin Koppelman: Crypto market is in a short-term bubble
“Short term, of course, it's currently a bubble. There's, well, little question about it.”
Köppelmann: Inflation is an effective mechanism to finance public goods
“Inflation can, or that, that mechanism can be used in, in, in useful ways. So, so inflation is, is a good way to finance a public good.”
Koppelman: Decentralized platforms prevent monopolies from arbitrarily increasing fees
“With a decentralized platform. You can structure it in a way that you restrict yourself. So you create this platform and you put in a fee. So you put in a, whatever some fee, but you don't have the control over changing that fee. So if you then later you are t…”
Köppelmann refuses to build on centralized APIs like Twitter
“So I personally would never build, let's say around the API of another platform. So let's say Twitter, because they can change the rules anytime they can shut it down. And even if they have well intentions and they want to say, okay, we will never change the r…”
Koppelman: New technology should create new markets before replacing incumbents
“I think it's always easier if there's new technology to create completely new stuff. And then later you and then later this technology will replace.”
Koppelman: Gnosis token sale Ether is now worth $60M-$70M
“Fortunately, right now, this ETH isn't worth much more, now it's in the range of 60, seventy million dollars.”
Koppelman: Gnosis pays most operating expenses and employees in Ether
“And I mean, we collect ether, and we sold a bit already for fiat, so that we can pay our bills, but also we already pay most of our expenses in ether directly, so we pay our employees in ether, for example.”
Köppelmann is developing Circles, enabling individuals to issue personal currencies
“I'm even kind of a side project. I'm working on a project where you, where every person would issue their own currency essentially, and kind of people would just mutually agree to accept each other currencies. It's a concept called circle. So whatever we are t…”