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Featuring: Elon Musk, Senior Advisor to the President, Head of Department of Government Efficiency | National

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Elon Musk: A Different Conversation w/ Nikhil Kamath | Full Episode | People by WTF Ep. 16

Published | Video Starts at 37:32

… financial exchange essentially solving money from an information theory standpoint where the current banking system is a large number of heterogeneous databases with batch processing that are not secure. And If we could have a single database that was real time and secure that would be more efficient from an information theory standpoint. than a large number of heterogeneous databases that batch process Very slowly and securely. So that was sort of X.com way back in the day, which kind of became PayPal and then. (37:32–37:47)

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