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Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak urges for ‘Bitcoin As Globally Accepted Currency’

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak doesn’t seem to be convinced that bitcoin would supersede national currencies to become a de facto global currency, but he says that he hopes this will one day be the case.

He said to CNBC that he is constructive to the “purity” of the noble idea that people around the world could one fine day likely share uniform currency system, despite being detached by overseas borders.

“I buy into what Jack Dorsey says, not that I necessarily believe it’s going to happen, but because I want it to be that way, that is so pure thinking,” he further added.

While to substantiate this stance, Dorsey, who is the CEO of Twitter and digital payment processor Square, had mentioned in the recent past that he reckons bitcoin would be the world’s only currency, perhaps within a next decade or so.

Hearkening back to comments that he has made in the past, Wozniak said that bitcoin is “pure digital gold” and unlike many cryptocurrencies, “absolutely decentralized” since it is not run by any company or government and does not have a business model.

“Bitcoin is mathematically defined, there is a certain quantity of bitcoin, there’s a way it’s distributed… and it’s pure and there’s no human running, there’s no company running and it’s just… growing and growing… and surviving,” he clarified. “That to me says something that is natural and nature is more important than all our human conventions.”

Notably, Wozniak is also bullish on Ethereum, particularly since it views itself as a platform rather than just a store of value. Last month, he mentioned that he trusts the project could become the next Apple in terms of its status in the tech sector.

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