Tier 2: Here you would pay $60, or $45 with Binance Coin. It is very simple, if you want to exchange currency you have to pay for it in order to get that currency. 16943 adds a generatetodescriptor RPC that allows new blocks generated during testing (e.g. in regtest mode) to pay a script represented by an output script descriptor. In terms of the Risk Index, Bitcoin getting bad marks for price volatility is all well and good, but it’s still less volatile than the newer altcoins that haven’t been around for

extended bear markets. And in part because the situation is still developing, even this article may contain accidental errors … It requires a certain critical mass of users for these sharing services to function, and it remains to be seen whether smaller cities or rural areas are even interested. Even in countries like Ethiopia and Sudan, you now have 20 or 25% of the population with a mobile phone, and in the next five years that’s going to pass 50%. So we are now in a position where the increase of technology is going to allow more people to come online and with Bitcoin it doesn’t matter what passport you have, or what nationality you are, or what ethnicity you are, or what you believe in, you can connect to this network.

So can you talk about - for people who like in Nigeria or Sudan who are going to need micropayments, who are going to want to send $5 or $10, can you talk a little bit about your commitment at Square to Lightning, how you understood how Bitcoin will scale in layers perhaps instead of on the main chain, and why you are so committed to Lighting in a time where we are going to get a lot more users? When you have so many more people on-ramping into this system, we’re probably going to have a situation where fees on the main chain are going to get pretty high in fiat terms. Can you talk a little bit more about the vision for that fund and what you all hope to do over the coming years? A: You recently personally launched a new fund with Jay-Z, where you guys dedicated 500 BTC to help the Bitcoin ecosystem in Africa and India. Portals like Live BTC News can be of great help for such traders and investors. To re-iterate: there was simply no value to be returned to investors, the only inflows were those of new investors piling in.

On the spec itself, there was a proposal to move to working groups to split the specification into different working groups. If I were not at Square or Twitter, I’d be working on Bitcoin. And I saw that the number one problem that entrepreneurs were working on there - and I only met the entrepreneurs, I didn’t meet anyone in the government or the media - they are all working on payments and the most interesting of them were working on Bitcoin. As you all probably know, there are billions of people around the world who are completely unbanked, or they are underbanked. So when we think about banking the unbanked, what’s your vision for what is most important for helping onboard people into this new system? A: The theme for today is banking the unbanked. Today we’ve got maybe - and estimates vary - anywhere from 150 million to 200 million people have used Bitcoin in some way. And I want to thank you by the way - I appreciate you so much for all the work you do to take away a bunch of the myths that people have in their head and give a strong case for why Bitcoin can be used by everyone - but we don’t need the financial institutions that we have today.

My belief in bitcoin is that it’s an amazing asset, but my belief is that the internet needs a native currency, and we need to be able to transact with this every single day. J: Well, we don’t need the banks anymore. I don’t think there’s anything more important in my lifetime to work on and I don’t think there’s anything more enabling for people around the world. A: Let’s speak a little more about that. And I think they’ll get a little reality check there. Once we find that board, we’ll hire a lead, and they’ll start making grants denominated in bitcoin. So, right now we’re trying to find the right board for it. So, I talked to Jay about it. A: So Jay might have 99 problems but being his own bank won’t be one. Jay loves Bitcoin, he goes very deep in what he loves, he believes in it, and he also believes in this idea of making sure that if we’re going to create a money for the world, it has to be developed around the world. What is your perspective on this idea that Bitcoin is for everybody? There’s so much work to do around accessibility, there’s so much work to do around education so that people can own the idea themselves.