Ben McKenzie
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
They call them wallets.
This wallet sent something of value to this other wallet.
But it's synonymous.
It obscures the identity of who's sending what to whom.
It's not anonymous.
If you can figure out who owns what, then you have a whole record of every transaction they've ever made, potentially.
But it is synonymous, and there's also other ways of obscuring it.
It was pitched as anonymous, but to me, the crypto story is quite simple in the sort of the broadest sense.
It's two parts.
The first is, do you hate our current system?
Right.
Every single person raises their hands, right?
We all have different reasons.
And the second part is Bitcoin fixes this.
It's become a meme.
It's a cure-all.
Right.
And then it gets more nuanced, obviously, as people sort of articulate different reasons why they believe in it.
But that really is the essence of it to me.
It's essential to remind ourselves, it was sold to us initially as a currency.