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William Quigley

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
436 total appearances

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Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

So if you take regulated and unregulated gambling.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

So the gray market plus the regulated portion, that's $4 trillion annually.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

So that is an enormous market.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

That is an enormous market.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

Yeah, it's one of the biggest markets in the world.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

Yes.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

And so I don't see prediction markets being the primary way people engage in that.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

If they did, however, then that would be a way for

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

prediction markets would be, you know, trillion dollar businesses.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

But I just I don't think that's what's going to happen.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

You know, it could.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

That would be the that would be the real bull market case that that they become the way most people perform bets or take bets, wager for sports events, because that that is a very popular pastime.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

So myself and three other individuals created Tether.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

So that's sort of how we got involved in it.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

We invented the concept of the stable coin.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

And we did so because we were trying to address a problem.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

And the problem was, now this is ancient history, so it won't even make sense to people.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

But there were only a few places where you could use fiat to acquire crypto.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

At the time, it was really just Bitcoin.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
371: What Founders Still Get Wrong in Crypto with Guest speaker William Quigley from WAX + Tether

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