Bitcoin Q&A: Mass Adoption & Peer-to-Peer Commerce

When are we going to see mass adoption of open blockchains, especially by "big sellers" and merchant services like Amazon? A system of closed, centralized, weaponized political control vs. open source, localized / peer-to-peer commerce. Will the user experience improve?

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0:00 When do you think we're going to see blockchain adopted by the biggest market places like Amazon and by the mass-sellers and buyers?
1:28 What about scaling, though? I used to build websites for companies and asked them to build me laptops. I didn't have to pay taxes on the "money" that they gave me, and they could actually get something back from taxes for building me computers. This was a great thing, but it didn't scale
3:11 Do you worry about Bitcoin failing because the masses don't understand it?
5:09 What do we do about that gap in the perception of how easy it would be to have an open payment system?

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