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Building Payments, Aligning Goals
1:43:41 - 1:53:20 (09:38)
The speaker discusses how advancements in payment technologies can be applied to the brain and human interactions. He shares his experience building a payments company with the goal of attracting the best merchants rather than becoming the biggest payments company.
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PayPal's strategy was to build a two-sided marketplace for funding checking accounts and getting merchants to accept it, resulting in zero cost of payment for merchants versus paying bank fees for credit card transactions.
1:43:41 - 1:45:44 (02:03)
Summary
PayPal's strategy was to build a two-sided marketplace for funding checking accounts and getting merchants to accept it, resulting in zero cost of payment for merchants versus paying bank fees for credit card transactions.
ChapterBuilding Payments, Aligning Goals
Episode#186 – Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
The speaker discusses his goal of building a payments company, replicating its model to provide funding options and eventually acquiring a consumer payments company with the ultimate aim of not building the biggest payments company but the most admired.
1:45:45 - 1:48:00 (02:15)
Summary
The speaker discusses his goal of building a payments company, replicating its model to provide funding options and eventually acquiring a consumer payments company with the ultimate aim of not building the biggest payments company but the most admired.
ChapterBuilding Payments, Aligning Goals
Episode#186 – Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
Bitcoin can be used as a tool of activism to resist the corruption of centralized centers of power in regimes with poor human rights, as well as being a revolutionary technology that can change the world.
1:48:01 - 1:50:43 (02:42)
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Bitcoin can be used as a tool of activism to resist the corruption of centralized centers of power in regimes with poor human rights, as well as being a revolutionary technology that can change the world.
ChapterBuilding Payments, Aligning Goals
Episode#186 – Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
The progress being made in cryptocurrency could greatly enhance brain interfaces and the value of the brain interface ecosystem, according to the CEO of the brain interface company, Colonel.
1:50:44 - 1:53:20 (02:35)
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The progress being made in cryptocurrency could greatly enhance brain interfaces and the value of the brain interface ecosystem, according to the CEO of the brain interface company, Colonel. The similarity in technology stacks between cryptocurrency and brain interfaces could be beneficial to achieving many goals in the field of brain interfaces.