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How Digital Assets Will Help Create a Sustainable Global Economy | Ripple Co-Founder & Executive Chairman Chris Larsen

May 04, 2020 • Ripple • Season 1 • Episode 1

Ripple Co-Founder and Executive Chairman Chris Larsen looks back at the birth of digital assets and explains why early e-currencies like Beenz and Second Life’s Linden Dollars failed to take off and how Satoshi Nakamoto’s seminal white paper on Bitcoin was perfectly timed.