Speaking Of Crypto

Galia Benartzi is Co-Founder of Bancor. She’s a forward-thinking entrepreneur who grew up in Silicon Valley and is currently based Israel, which is one of the largest tech hubs in the world and even referred to as StartUp Nation. We talk about Bancor’s pilot programs – one in Israel and another in Kenya that fuel a community with exchangeable tokens and allow users to trade an interact with a community currency. Bitcoin had challenged the idea of what money is, how we use it and why we choose to use the currency we do. “A lot of people when you ask them ‘what is money?’ will say it's a store of value, it's a means of exchange. And, those things are true in the sense that they are what money does. But, they’re not what money is. What money is ,is an agreement. Nothing more and nothing less. It's an agreement between the people who use that money and between the people who accept that money. It is an agreement to be in collaboration according to the rules of that system.” So the fact that Bitcoin has given us a