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David Marcus wants to make Bitcoin's Lightning Network the global settlement layer for the internet

The Scoop

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How I Found Bitcoin

David Marcus is the founder and CEO of CleanSpark, a company that supports Bitcoin. He says he first stumbled upon Bitcoin in 2009 while working on his mobile payments startup called Zong. In 2013 at PayPal, Argentina asked us to stop the flow of money going out of the country from PayPal accounts located in Argentina. "I just couldn't stop thinking about this idea that you could actually be your own self-soverin for digital value," said Marcus.

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