The Creator of Signal Has a Plan to Fix Cryptocurrency
The Creator of Signal Has a Plan to Fix Cryptocurrency
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
December 25, 201713m 24s
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Show Notes
In the early bitcoin years, proponents promised that you would soon be able to pay for anything and everything with cryptocurrency. Order pizza! Buy Etsy trinkets! Use a bitcoin ATM! While PayPal had existed for more than a decade, frictionless, social payment platforms like Venmo were just first taking off, and cryptocurrency seemed like a legitimate way for digital transactions to evolve. It didn't happen.
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