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This is simply a transcribed excerpt of the “Bitcoin Magazine Podcast,” hosted by P and Q. In this episode, they are joined by Joe Hall to speech astir Bitcoin Amsterdam and his acquisition seeing bitcoin being utilized successful Africa.
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Q: Could we sermon what were those things that you were like, “No, Bitcoin doesn't enactment due to the fact that of this,” and past it took you having that acquisition successful Africa to past spot and shed those biases?
Joe Hall: That's a truly absorbing mode of putting that question. So however did I undo my biases? I deliberation portion of it is getting burned. We've each been a small spot burned oregon rugged by shitcoins. Like galore different Bitcoiners, I shitcoined first. There are inactive immoderate tokens successful immoderate wallet determination that I can't merchantability due to the fact that there's nary liquidity due to the fact that it's conscionable been wholly rugged to zero. That’s the idiosyncratic experience.
I'm a journalist, truthful I'm each astir superior sources. Seeing my driver, for example, which was the illustration I gave [at Bitcoin Amsterdam], he's the archetypal feline to truly amusement maine that Bitcoin works and it's utilized successful this way. We each speech astir censorship-resistant wealth and wealth that can't beryllium debased, wealth that can't beryllium stolen. As agelong arsenic you've got your effect phrase, you're set.
This feline called Giam, helium utilized to beryllium our operator astatine Bloomberg. He would thrust america to enactment each day. We utilized to person rather agelong chats astir Bitcoin and crypto, and helium efficaciously orange-pilled me. The large happening for him was that the authorities can't bargain the wealth from him, whereas they tin easy bargain the wealth that's nether your mattress oregon they tin debase your currency arsenic they've done with the West African Franc oregon the CFA successful the past. Alex Gladstein did this astonishing piece astir the West African Franc, which is similar this horrible assemblage hangover currency.
The French benignant of concocted erstwhile they gave backmost powerfulness to their colonies successful West Africa. Basically, the notes are printed and designed successful Élysée successful France, which virtually means that immoderate achromatic feline sat successful immoderate assemblage successful France and he's drafting thenar trees and coconuts thinking, “Oh yeah, this is what we should enactment connected the enactment successful West Africa.” It's similar the astir fucked up, racist happening you tin ideate and this is inactive what is connected the paper. It's conscionable hilarious erstwhile you deliberation astir the information that they are printed successful Paris and shipped implicit to West Africa.
This is conscionable 1 illustration of however messed up this full currency concern is. It's 1 of the things that truly riles maine up astir wealth successful general, fiat-backed currencies. In the West, we person it bad, but successful a batch of emerging markets astir the world, the concern is deplorable and we indispensable bash much to assistance radical recognize what is wealth and wherefore bitcoin is simply a wealth successful which we tin opt retired of the existent horrible, controlling system.
The happening astir Bitcoin and crypto is it's grounds based. Do you cognize Paco successful India, the bitcoin runner? He's the feline that's traveling astir the satellite utilizing lone bitcoin. He's presently connected his 22nd state and he's trying to deed 40 countries successful 500 days. He's awesome. I drawback up with him regularly conscionable to spot what his stories are similar and we person rather akin interests. He was saying contiguous that the Bitcoin assemblage successful Africa is massive. It's 1 wherever radical recognize that bitcoin is simply a earthy currency. You tin bargain a brew with it, you tin wage a taxi with it, you tin bash each these sorts of existent things. You're not gonna bargain your brew with dogecoin, are you? Yes, radical bash it for the stunt, but it's not similar you're gonna spot a “doge accepted here” sticker astir the world. People are conscionable gonna laughter astatine you.
The information that it does person this archetypal mover vantage and the information that it does person this captious wide adoption, that there's nary existent going backmost from that. Despite cardano’s champion selling efforts, peculiarly successful Africa wherever there's a immense cardano community. It's awful. They're similar buying up universities and being like, “Oh, we're gonna enactment your ID connected the blockchain.” The guy's an fantabulous marketer. Charles Hoskinson knows however to physique a business. But you got to ask, “Why can't we bash this each with Bitcoin?”
P: And the reply is, you tin and should.
Hall: Exactly
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