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David Marcus: From PayPal to Facebook to Building on Bitcoin and Lightning

Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell

CHAPTER

How I Discovered Bitcoin

I started looking at Bitcoin actually fairly early so you know, oh nine 2010 I started looking at it. In 2012 a friend of mine insisted that I spent the cycles and I did and then my mind was blown this idea that you could actually move value around the world without any intermediary in between is really super exciting to me. The whole point of this whole thing that we call crypto or Bitcoin or whatever we want to call it - the whole point is self sovereignty decentralization. And as such I think that, you know, proof of work is actually a much better algorithm for the centralization. Because there's no multiple big islands controlling the protocol It's actually very decentralized in nature and everything is

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