#430: Bitcoin vs the $156 Trillion Global Payments Industry with Sam Wouters
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast · Marty Bent
June 30, 20232h 1m
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Show Notes
<p>Marty sits down with Sam Wouters to discuss Bitcoin's rate of adoption for cross-border payments.</p>
<p>Sam on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SDWouters</p>
<p>Sam's report on River blog: https://blog.river.com/bitcoin-vs-the-156-trillion-global-payments-industry/</p>
<p>0:00 - Intro<br />
2:30 - Finding bitcoin through Runescape<br />
9:22 - New educational resources in Bitcoin<br />
13:27 - Diving into Sam’s report<br />
17:51 - Structure of the report<br />
21:39 - Chapter 1: Cross-border payments industry<br />
31:53 - Comparing Bitcoin and internet adoption<br />
41:37 - Remittance education<br />
48:31 - Getting into charts on remittance volume<br />
56:18 - Chapter 2: Global bitcoin adoption<br />
1:07:58 - Motivation for adoption<br />
1:13:39 - Chapter 3: Cross-border Bitcoin payments<br />
1:23:13 - What makes bitcoin better for remittance<br />
1:26:28 - Lightning services<br />
1:30:26 - Bitcoin for payments<br />
1:33:32 - Google search traffic for Bitcoin<br />
1:39:17 - B2C<br />
1:44:35 - Chapter 4: Growing cross-border Bitcoin payments<br />
1:51:36 - Adoption funnel<br />
1:55:33 - Marty tries to quote himself before wrapping up</p>
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