Andreas Antonopoulos

And that's a fundamental property of the system, is that you don't have to trust the party you're transacting with, because instead you can trust that the platform will resolve the transaction fairly.

And that neutral platform, which is based on mathematical rules, replaces traditional institutional governance based on bureaucracy and hierarchy and organizational— It removes all emotion.

Yes, it removes all emotion from it and it also removes the opportunities for concentration of power, abuse of power and corruption, which we see all across the world.

It's especially important for developing nations where economic insecurity and participation and inclusion is very low.

And it brings the possibility now of anyone with a smartphone having access to a wealth of financial services they've never had access to before, and playing on an equal basis with some of the most powerful banks in the world.

That's really what it is.

As someone said, it's a get-free-quick scheme kind of disguised as a get-rich-quick scheme.

And it's not a get-rich-quick scheme.

It can burn you badly because of volatility.

No, I'm single.

They live in Greece, and I've actually talked about the fact that due to the crisis in Greece, when my mother's retirement was at risk in the Greek banks, you know, cryptos, actually cryptocurrencies, saved the day for her because they allowed her to protect her retirement, which was cash-based, from failing Greek banks and currency controls and withdrawal limits on ATMs and things like that, and to achieve a level of financial security.

I would say that we probably shouldn't have spent the last 20 years bombing the shit out of their countries in order to promote an oil monopoly and funding all of that terrorism and training and weapons through the State Department, the CIA and other intelligence agencies around the world using dollars and oil as a primary funding mechanism and creating

millions of jihadis and others through appalling policies of oppression and colonialism around the world, and to blame the means of cryptocurrency rather than looking at the root causes of terrorism.

And the fact that very much of our middle-class lifestyle and cheap oil in the United States is based upon

essentially a bargain of blood around the world is the real problem.

So, you know, I see that as a misdirection and a distraction.

ISIS was funded and trained by the United States, just like Al-Qaeda was, just like bin Laden was.

All of these people are our allies first until they turn around and become our enemies.

And we cycled them over the last 20 years in one unending, tragic catastrophe.

No, there isn't.