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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

#156: Matt Ahlborg

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Join Marty as he sits down with Matt Ahlborg, founder of UsefulTulips.org, to discuss:

- How the rolling blackouts in Venezuela last year affected bitcoin trading in LatAm + the US

- How Venezuelan's are using bitcoin as a rail to move money

- Why we've seen an increase in bitcoin exchange volume in Argentina

- Argentina's history of capital controls

- Cuevas

- Do individuals using bitcoin in LatAm believe in its long-term viability as a digital money?

- Increased bitcoin exchange volume in Kenya

- Bitcoin usage in India

- much more

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Transcript

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0:00.0

So freaks, it's your boy, Marty Ben, here to introduce this episode of Tales from the Crypt.

0:04.4

I had the immense pleasure of sitting down with Matt Alborg again for the second time to dive

0:10.3

into some of his research around Bitcoin usage in Latin America, particularly Venezuela and Argentina,

0:16.9

how individuals in both countries are using Bitcoin differently, why they're using it,

0:23.5

and how dollars play a role in all of that on top of that.

0:27.4

We touched a little bit about Bitcoin usage in Kenya and India towards the end.

0:32.1

I think you guys are really going to like this podcast.

0:35.0

Matt is doing incredible work, actually doing investigative journalism to see how people

0:41.0

in countries that are typically underserved from a monetary perspective are actually using

0:45.9

Bitcoin.

0:46.8

Bitcoiners like to believe that these people, these people, I'm sorry for that.

0:55.7

Individuals within these countries are using Bitcoin. It's been surmised for quite some time. Matt is proving that yes, people are

1:03.4

using Bitcoin. Maybe not for the reasons that you think they would be, but they are using it

1:07.4

nonetheless. And it's a growing usage across Latin America and other countries around the world.

1:14.8

This episode of Tales from the Crypt is brought to you by our good friends at the cash app.

1:17.3

You freaks already know all about them.

1:20.3

They're helping you stack sats or help me send sats or helping you've received sats or help you sell sats if you so.

1:24.4

Please, if you want to dump your sats, you can do it the cash app don't recommend it but it's possible sats are the standard on the cash app i just notice they

1:32.9

up the weekly uh the amount of sats you can buy monthly excuse me on the on the cash app from 10,000

1:40.4

to a hundred thousand dollars worth of sats so if you're a big baller and you want to buy in bulk

1:46.4

on the cash app, you can do that now. Be cognizant of the withdrawal limits. You don't want to have

1:53.5

too much stuck on there at one time if you want to take possession of your keys. So just be

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