I would be interested to know, what specifically, convinced Friedman in 1990, that this was almost certain to happen.

I dno how he knew. But he had an incredible mind. So I'm not surprised he knew.

I wonder whether he was following the cypherpunk stuff to any degree.

he must have been aware of david chaum's efforts with digicash. i believe this emphasis on 'trustless' acknowledges one of the fundamental reasons digicash failed.

Well I think he was. I think his grandson told him about BTC and similar projects. Possibly his soon too. Both are anarchists I believe. But I don't know if that would have happened after this video or before. But maybe he just knew the central banks would never give up their power. And had faith in human ingenuity and technology.

This isn't AI?

no. it was uploaded on youtube 13 years ago:.

Oh damn that's interesting. I didn't know he was into this.

Audio sync was a bit off, made me think it might be deepfake

The guy who says that money printing is essential for the economy?

The guy knew satoshi