The Other Side of the Bitcoin: Crypto & Corruption w/Ben McKenzie | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
He contends that the technology is technologically inferior for payments and that its rise is driven by 'greater fool' speculation and political corruption rather than intrinsic value.summaryBlockchain technology is technically inadequate for global payments, processing only 5-7 transactions per second compared to Visa's 24,000, making it impractical for widespread use.takeawayJeffrey Epstein funded Bitcoin Core development through the MIT Media Lab in 2015, linking the technology's survival to criminal networks involved in blackmail and money laundering.takeaway














