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Andreas Antonopoulos

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200 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty

No, I don't have the utopia in my brain.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty

I believe the vast majority of people are good.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty

There are evil people, but we now live in a world in which open communication and the transfer of information, including money, is now a matter of reality.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty

It is a fact.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty

So what happens?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty

Yes, because we already have greedy people killing people and bombing people because they have more resources.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty

That hasn't changed and never changed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty

What we can do, however, is change the lots of billions of people who currently don't have economic inclusion.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty

We will not eradicate evil in the world by trying to control the flow of money, but we can eradicate evil by giving people opportunity and hope and prosperity across the world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty

And so from that perspectiveβ€” You can't, though.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty

Of course, they will be evil people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty

They won't find many followers if their followers are happy and prosperous.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty

Cryptocurrency doesn't magically create money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty

Yeah, that's not creating money from nothing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty

That is the productive application of capital and investments by investors who believe that there's going to be a return, and maybe there won't be in some cases.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty

But this money wasn't created from nothing, and these economies not.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty

Let me shift.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty

Well, I think there's, you know, we're seeing all of these hype cycles.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty

So a lot of this is speculation about what the next big thing is.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty

I think many people missed out on perhaps the initial run up for Bitcoin.