Jack Mallers: Bitcoin Enables Peak Humanity

Описание: Jack Mallers is the founder and CEO of Strike, a mobile payment application using the Bitcoin blockchain to send and receive money. In 2021 he helped lead El Salvador’s adoption of BTC as legal tender, and started the Pay Me in Bitcoin campaign. 

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Timecodes:
00:00 Promo Codes & Intro
02:44 Growing up near Chicago
04:24 Family pressure
08:16 Relationship with money
12:27 Maintaining integrity during competition
16:40 Family first
18:43 Beauty of the Bitcoin space
21:20 Why is he so competitive?
25:04 Obsessed with chess
28:17 Leaving St. John's in first semester
30:41 Disillusioned after dropping out
33:07 Learning to code
34:09 Discovering Bitcoin
39:19 iTrustCapital break
40:14 Seeing the value in BTC
42:07 Building Zap
46:06 Myths about Zap, Lightning Network and Strike
52:18 Zap had zero investors
53:05 Buying a pizza then building Strike
1:00:13 What is the Lightning Network?
1:05:24 Thesis of Strike
1:06:57 BTC needs regulatory clarity
1:09:24 Bitcoin Conference preview
1:12:17 Life since 2021 Bitcoin Miami
1:13:37 Bitcoin most important invention in history
1:16:19 BTC over next 5-10 years
1:18:13 Threats to Bitcoin
1:20:55 What would Jack tell his younger self?
1:23:06 Owes everything to Bitcoin community