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Ben Gilbert: belief

19 Jan 2021 Acquired Bitcoin

“I think the biggest change that Satoshi did not foresee that will need to happen is the one that's going on now and the one that hasn't really been implemented yet where Bitcoin was initially created to replace the payments layer on the internet, first and foremost, and create a low transaction cost payment system with no fraud.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
19 Jan 2021
Publisher
Acquired
Episode
Bitcoin

Transcript context

…But so small, so relatively few things. You can probably count on one hand the number of additional modifications to the system that have had to be made over the last 10 years that weren’t captured in this 9-page document. It's incredible. Yeah, it is. I think the biggest change that Satoshi did not foresee that will need to happen is the one that's going on now and the one that hasn't really been implemented yet where Bitcoin was initially created to replace the payments layer on the internet, first and foremost, and create a low transaction cost payment system with no fraud. As you dive deeper and deeper, you realize… It’s actually not great at that.…

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