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#430: Bitcoin vs the $156 Trillion Global Payments Industry with Sam Wouters

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Marty sits down with Sam Wouters to discuss Bitcoin's rate of adoption for cross-border payments.


Sam on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SDWouters


Sam's report on River blog: https://blog.river.com/bitcoin-vs-the-156-trillion-global-payments-industry/


0:00 - Intro

2:30 - Finding bitcoin through Runescape

9:22 - New educational resources in Bitcoin

13:27 - Diving into Sam’s report

17:51 - Structure of the report

21:39 - Chapter 1: Cross-border payments industry

31:53 - Comparing Bitcoin and internet adoption

41:37 - Remittance education

48:31 - Getting into charts on remittance volume

56:18 - Chapter 2: Global bitcoin adoption

1:07:58 - Motivation for adoption

1:13:39 - Chapter 3: Cross-border Bitcoin payments

1:23:13 - What makes bitcoin better for remittance

1:26:28 - Lightning services

1:30:26 - Bitcoin for payments

1:33:32 - Google search traffic for Bitcoin

1:39:17 - B2C

1:44:35 - Chapter 4: Growing cross-border Bitcoin payments

1:51:36 - Adoption funnel

1:55:33 - Marty tries to quote himself before wrapping up


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