John Collison
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6,048 appearances
22 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 5 Feb
John Collison’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But I think people have a hard time visualizing because they say, well, I don't, you know, pay at the bar using stablecoins.
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It's just i I I I am myself not paying data, therefore I just don't see it.
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Maybe you guys can level set for people what's actually working, because like consumer retail payments in the US are not, you know, the hotbed of stablecoin innovation.
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Just where is the stablecoin stuff?
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Okay, so cross border payments.
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Yeah.
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Dollar balances, dollar holdings uh for people in emerging markets.
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else?
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How do they do the initial conversion from, you know, Rwandan local currency or, you know, Bolivars or what have you to
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I think what you're highlighting with the
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FX dynamic is underappreciated in crypto being a platform on which you know it's like a shelling point for everyone to come together to create better things.
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And so we now have just more efficient ways to convert bottom ours to US dollars than we had before.
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It's not particularly crypto native, that particular leg, but crypto is load bearing in bringing everyone together.
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That analogy may be deeper than you think 'cause
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D do you know in the Starlink network where they started with more grand stations and then over time they're enabling more satellite to satellite connectivity to reduce the need for grand stations?
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And so it could be a pretty deep uh analogy.
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I'm gonna okay, s same question to you, um, Henry, where just what are people actually using stablecoins?
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previously it was n squared and now it's just n.
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And that was just end.
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Yeah.
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