Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedSam Bankman-Fried: uncertainty
15 Dec 2021 Acquired FTX (with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele)
“If you asked me what is a Bitcoin, I would not have been able to give you an answer other than a thing that trades on some exchanges and decentralization. I don't know.”
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- Speaker
- Sam Bankman-Fried
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 15 Dec 2021
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…At the time that you looked at CoinMarketCap, how much knowledge did you have about Bitcoin in general? Have you been introduced to the white paper? Were some of your friends talking about it? I'm trying to decide whether nothing is the right answer. It might be. I'm not sure if it's quite the right answer. I'm not sure it's not the right answer, but it's pretty close to that. If you asked me what is a Bitcoin, I would not have been able to give you an answer other than a thing that trades on some exchanges and decentralization. I don't know. It's better than everyone else at the moment, a lot of the time.…
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