Eric Adams: “If it grows in New York, it would cascade throughout the…”

“Look at how bitcoin has grown. And we must match what is happening on the national level with what we're doing on a local level. If it grows in New York, it would cascade throughout the entire country and we would normalize and allow young people to know the evolution and power of the bitcoin universe. This is such a natural formation. If you go back to 1200 BCE, they were using shells for goods and services. We moved to the coins being made, then the paper currency and and then the credit cards.” (05:44–05:58)

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