
A conversation between Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Stephen Wolfram (July 2, 2021) [Part 1]
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
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Is a Bit Coin a Currency?
The first thing that people ant getin, tell me, is successful. Why is it success? Is anybody using it? No, the priceis gong up. And and not because it's useful for transactions. Because ifits useful for transactions, say, the web doesn't have a market value. Can you buy the web if you abolish on the web? No, you buy company using the web. I meano iranian oil traders and things areusig don't now it is yu bit coin or or ote. The success of a currency is in its uses.
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