Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedBrendan Eich: uncertainty
15 Feb 2022 Acquired The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave)
“You're going to see more wallets and maybe you'll see them in big browsers, but I don't know if they're going to get into the system that we're getting into early, which is the Frontier.”
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- Speaker
- Brendan Eich
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- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 15 Feb 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…Do you think that Facebook, Google, or any of the others could ship a wallet in Chrome, for instance, or actually really embrace this? I bet there's somebody at Google who's looked at this. I know Google had a wallet or may even have a wallet team that does some outward bound stuff and they never connected with Chrome, they never put it together. PayPal is going to do their own stable coin or whatever. You're going to see more wallets and maybe you'll see them in big browsers, but I don't know if they're going to get into the system that we're getting into early, which is the Frontier. That means they may just be stuck in the old world. It's very much like the Age of Discovery. We're going to be building the Wild West, then the lights will come in, the streets will get better paved, and we'll be there already. We'll be selling pickaxes and shovels. The old world is back there if the Ancien Regime kind of corrupt, unwilling to innovate. Maybe they stole the gold, but their banks then stole it from them through compound interest. I love it. You're the sans-culottes.…
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