Orange Pilling the IMF with Jack Mallers
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Location: Los Angeles
Date: Tuesday 1st February
Project: Strike
Role: CEO
Over the past few years, Jack Mallers has made your “bank account speak bitcoin” with Strike, started the “pay me in Bitcoin” campaign, and was instrumental in onboarding an entire country on to Bitcoin, but he’s only just getting started.
Bitcoin is an open monetary network that enables a free market for payments and unprecedented interoperability. With money moving at the speed of lightning on a level playing field, the money and payments industries are being disrupted at a staggering pace.
Now, calls are pouring in from massive players trying to understand how the world is changing. So who will Jack orange pill next?
In this interview, I talk to Jack Mallers, CEO of Strike. We discuss his interactions with the IMF, Facebook, Jeff Bezos, and Argentina, and the global implications of the Bitcoin network.
00:03:53: Introductions
00:05:48: Jack and the IMF
00:15:00: Dematerialisation of monetary networks
00:18:15: Mirroring the evolution of the internet
00:23:42: The open monetary network encourages competition
00:28:40: The free market can decide the best consumer experience
00:31:48: Strike's thesis and current products
00:33:14: Building network effects
00:37:08: Jack vs Washington DC
00:45:50: When legacy financial innovation died
00:49:41: The true value of BTC and Lightning Networks
00:57:13: Jack's lightbulb moment
00:59:54: The peanut story and Jeff Bezos
01:13:30: Strike in Argentina, and stablecoins
01:19:21: Being Jack Mallers
01:21:43: Final comments
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Mentioned in the interview:
Bitcoin: Disrupting Cross Border Payments - Jack Mallers’ IMF Fintech Seminar
Jack Mallers Teaches The IMF About Bitcoin Using Tortilla Chips And Peanuts
IMF urges El Salvador to remove Bitcoin as legal tender - BBC
Bitcoin Magazine on Twitter: “Jack Dorsey x Jack Mallers The #Bitcoin Dream team⚡”
Diem Confirms Shutdown as Silvergate Acquires the Project's Assets - Coindesk
Argentina Tightens Capital Controls Ahead of Midterm Vote - Bloomberg
Michael Saylor doesn’t think Bitcoin is ‘going to be currency in the US ever’ - Cointelegraph
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