E138: President of Solana: How Bitcoin and Solana Are the Future of Banking

When Shift Happens Podcast

Lily Liu, President of the Solana Foundation, explains why Bitcoin and Solana will replace traditional banking.

She discusses how Bitcoin serves as digital gold while Solana provides the infrastructure to bank 5.5 billion people currently excluded from the financial system.

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DISCLAIMER

The info contained herein is for informational purposes only. Nothing herein shall be construed to be financial, legal, or tax advice. The content of this video is solely the opinions of the speakers who are not a licensed financial advisor or registered investment advisor. Trading cryptocurrencies poses considerable risk of loss. The speakers do not guarantee any particular outcome.

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0:00 Introduction

1:40 Please Subscribe

2:06 What Is Kast?

3:31 How Are You Doing

5:45 Explain What You Do

6:49 Money That Doesn’t Work

10:48 Our Valued Sponsors

13:44 Who Are You

28:23 The Core Problem

29:07 Our Valued Podcast Partners

32:29 How Crypto Became Huge

32:43 Human Rationalism Debunked

52:20 Why Bitcoin Is Fascinating

54:24 When You Realized Life Work

56:12 Solana Is The Infrastructure

1:00:39 Bitcoin, Center Of Everything

1:02:34 Why Is Crypto Important

1:10:46 What Is Sol

1:12:32 What Solana Is Bad At

1:18:20 Endgame For Solana

1:32:24 Solana Overcoming Competition

1:37:14 Biggest Competitor

1:38:26 Solana vs Hyper Liquid How?

1:48:05 Another Way To See Solutions

1:50:40 Conspiracy Theory