Andreas Antonopoulos

We now live in a world in which the flow of money around the world will be dictated by protocols and mathematical structures and the internet.

And we will have free flow of money around the world.

Now, the impact of that is that it's going to empower billions of people and pull them out of poverty and give them access

and inclusion in the economy.

The illusion that we can control bad behavior or bad people by controlling flows of money is not only an illusion, a delusion because we can't, but in fact, it's very damaging because- You don't, hold on, let me just capitalize on that subject real quick.

No, absolutely not.

In fact, economic liberalization has been the primary way of reducing conflict and violence around the world, not economic restrictions.

In fact, most wars start as economic embargoes and push populations into extremism.

But that's politics.

The issue here is that the ability to control flows of money gives governments too much power, which leads them to corruption.

and oppression of their people and economically excludes billions of people from the worldwide economy to create an illusion, an illusion of security for middle class so they don't have to confront the real problems and the real choices we have to make.

So no, you can't control money.

We can't now.

It's ineffective now and it will continue to be ineffective.

The truth is that the vast majority of terrorism is funded by state agencies, intelligence agencies and large corporate banking consortia.

He already has that.

I'm more interested in ensuring that billions of people who are trapped in poverty have the means to provide for shelter, education, food, clean water for their children.

That is what brings us peace in the world, not the illusion that we can control other people's money, because we can't.

Absolutely, yeah.

No, not at all.