Bitcoin: The Future of Mining

The author is one of the most prolific researchers in Bitcoin these days. He says he initially found Bitcoin through an online game that had its own trading economy. After a couple of years, people started accepting all kinds of payment methods and it eventually became Bitcoin. "I've always been passionate about education, which has been an amazing experience"

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Marty sits down with Sam Wouters to discuss Bitcoin's rate of adoption for cross-border payments.

Sam on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SDWouters

Sam's report on River blog: https://blog.river.com/bitcoin-vs-the-156-trillion-global-payments-industry/

0:00 - Intro
2:30 - Finding bitcoin through Runescape
9:22 - New educational resources in Bitcoin
13:27 - Diving into Sam’s report
17:51 - Structure of the report
21:39 - Chapter 1: Cross-border payments industry
31:53 - Comparing Bitcoin and internet adoption
41:37 - Remittance education
48:31 - Getting into charts on remittance volume
56:18 - Chapter 2: Global bitcoin adoption
1:07:58 - Motivation for adoption
1:13:39 - Chapter 3: Cross-border Bitcoin payments
1:23:13 - What makes bitcoin better for remittance
1:26:28 - Lightning services
1:30:26 - Bitcoin for payments
1:33:32 - Google search traffic for Bitcoin
1:39:17 - B2C
1:44:35 - Chapter 4: Growing cross-border Bitcoin payments
1:51:36 - Adoption funnel
1:55:33 - Marty tries to quote himself before wrapping up