Crypto is Here to Set You Free

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  If you go to all kinds of places in Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Southeast Asia, and those kinds of places, there the financial system is often not even well-connected to rich country financial system. Cryptocurrency just is by far the easiest way to send money home to people's families. Cryptocurrency can be even the easiest way to make payments. It could be the easiest way to save money that is much more guaranteed to not, you know, drop a factor of two every year for pretty much forever. You know, you have people saying like, "Hey, I'm from this country, and in my country there actually was a hyperinflation, and because I was able to put money into Bitcoin and ETH, I was actually able to protect my savings." These are actual experiences that you regularly hear from people there.

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  A culture that is animated by those kinds of goals is just much healthier than a country where the thing that it's animated by is like, "Oh, look, you know, I have a $36,000 monkey, and that's my path to get into some kind of elite New York City nightclub."