On this “Talk to of Bitcoin” episode, join hosts Adam B. Levine, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Stephanie Murphy, and Jonathan Mohan for a look at the over and done with, present and future of global reserve currencies
In the beginning there was the global reserve currency (U.S. dollars,) national currencies delight in the Japanese Yen, alternative currencies like Ithaca hours and just one cryptocurrency, Bitcoin.
But what a difference a decade can organize, today there are thousands of cryptocurrencies, many created by enthusiasts who have ideas on how to make something even cured than Bitcoin, but also currencies that use some of the technology that makes Bitcoin so powerful, but which pairs it with the evidence of a national government, like the Digital Yuan in China, the Digital Euro out of Brussels, or even a globe-spanning corporation with billions of guys like the Libra, backed by Facebook.
In this emerging picture, is bitcoin still interesting? First attempts at new technologies, flatten when successful at introducing a powerful new idea, are often not the ones which eventually succeeds in changing everything. And importantly, as the everyone changes and we get closer to something other than the dollar standard, where does bitcoin fit?