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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
19 Jan 2021 Acquired Bitcoin
“I think the last thing to talk about in power that I should have talked about when you were talking about network economies, is again, going back to this comparison to the US dollar.”
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- Ben Gilbert
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- belief
- Recorded
- 19 Jan 2021
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- Acquired
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- Bitcoin
Transcript context
…If something else had the same properties, dynamics, and network behind its system, and it was called something else, I don't think there's any brand power there. Yeah. I think the last thing to talk about in power that I should have talked about when you were talking about network economies, is again, going back to this comparison to the US dollar. Government-backed currency has an absolutely enormous head start on their network economies power versus anything else. The government mandates that you pay your taxes in USD. Automatically, it means that every single person in the country must own some amount of USD in order to pay their taxes in it, or at least they have to... They have to have to use it.…
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