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From the Ted Talk by Paul Kemp-Robertson: Bitcoin. Sweat. Tide. Meet the future of branded currency.

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But what it does show is that it's sort of _______ ______, it's gaining respectability. You get services, like Reddit and Wordpress are actually accepting Bitcoin as a payment currency now. And that's showing you that people are actually placing _____ in technology, and it's started to trump and disrupt and interrogate traditional institutions and how we think about __________ and _____. And that's not surprising, if you think about the basket case that is the E.U. I think there was a Gallup survey out recently that said something like, in America, trust in banks is at an all-time low, it's something like 21 percent. And you can see here some ___________ from London where Barclays sponsored the city bike scheme, and some activists have done some nice _____ of guerrilla marketing here and doctored the slogans. "Sub-prime pedaling." "Barclays _____ you for a ride." These are the more polite ones I could share with you _____. But you get the gist, so people have really started to sort of lose faith in institutions.

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But what it does show is that it's sort of gaining ground, it's gaining respectability. You get services, like Reddit and Wordpress are actually accepting Bitcoin as a payment currency now. And that's showing you that people are actually placing trust in technology, and it's started to trump and disrupt and interrogate traditional institutions and how we think about currencies and money. And that's not surprising, if you think about the basket case that is the E.U. I think there was a Gallup survey out recently that said something like, in America, trust in banks is at an all-time low, it's something like 21 percent. And you can see here some photographs from London where Barclays sponsored the city bike scheme, and some activists have done some nice piece of guerrilla marketing here and doctored the slogans. "Sub-prime pedaling." "Barclays takes you for a ride." These are the more polite ones I could share with you today. But you get the gist, so people have really started to sort of lose faith in institutions.

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