 
We counted at least six individuals
who had purchased
narcotics off of Silk Road
and died as a result.
- People have flooded Africa
with a lot of scams, and a lot
of our people are
falling into those scams.
When there's a crisis
and everybody tries
to pull their money out
of the banking system
at the same time, banks
don't have that money.
They have either destroyed the money,
or they are in the
process of destroying it.
It's not that central
financial authorities
were a bad idea, but
where it has failed us
is where human greed has been
able to manipulate the system.
Since Bitcoin, like I became interested.
I would still be living
in my oblivious way,
hoping that whoever's running the system
is running it fine and
that we don't end up
the same way that Zimbabwe ended up.
We all remember what happened
with the financial crisis in 2009.
In that situation, we were reminded again
that banks can fail.
And so I would think, whoa,
this seems a little bit shady.
In the very beginning,
I remember they used to like
call me and try to recruit me.
They said, like, "You've
have got a network
"of people, you can make a lot of money."
If law enforcement or the government
want information about me, they should
have to come knock on my door.
This person, what he's saying on TV,
it's like, that's nonsense.
It's not up to some politician
or some other institution
to tell me what I can and what I can't do.
That's my business.
Finally, we could use the internet
to create a financial system
that benefited everybody potentially.
There are a class of problems in Africa
where we can just leapfrog.
(crickets chirp)
[Interviewer] How you feeling?
Very excited.
Making history.
 
